a recent article by sourceable explained that the new generation of solid state and thermoelectric cooling technologies could enhance the hvac market thanks to companies such as haier in australia that are bringing products to market that feature solid state cooling.

solid state cooling could be the future of hvac. (wikimedia commons)

the article explained, “in 99.9 per cent of peoples’ minds, the future of air conditioning has been, and always will be engaged entirely around reasonably foreseeable – ongoing ‘tweak-level’ changes to the existing systems technology. these are largely due to the imminent and ongoing legislative changes to refrigerant technologies to make them less prone to the absolutely massive climate change impacts that some of the most common ‘ozone friendly’ gasses have.”

it continued, “yes, to make refrigerants more ‘planet friendly’ and patch up the hole that cfcs and hfcs created in the ozone layer, they engineered a whole class of technology (that became the legal standards) that while reducing previous levels of impact, nonetheless locked in unacceptably large climate change impacts of refrigerants.”

with companies such as phononics, eic, and teca introducing solid state coolers for data centers and electronic and computer enclosures, the concept of solid state cooling has proven to work even in unforgiving environments such as those encountered by the military.

what is the big deal about solid state?

the article answered, “for a start, there's no compressor, no moving parts and no cooling liquids in a unit capable of operating almost silently. furthermore, it operates using around 25 per cent less energy than standard refrigerators while (likely) costing around the same price and dramatically reducing resource use and the transport and toxic pollution generation of those eliminated materials.”

read more at https://sourceable.net/new-cooling-technologies-could-be-game-changing.