Air Conditioning

Lorne Gunter: Ontario's Great Green Depression soon to go national

Edit Toronto Sun 19 Oct 2016

On Tuesday, my colleagues at the Toronto Sun heard about a woman who got up early every morning this past summer just to go sit in a nearby air-conditioned mall. A neighbour offered to buy her an air conditioner for her home, but she politely declined. She just couldn’t afford the electricity to run it ... Many have stopped using air conditioning despite Ontario’s hot, sticky summer. Some have shut off rooms in their homes ... ....

Grand Canyon National Park Fire Managers Plan Prescribed Burns on North Rim (NPS - National Park Service)

Edit Public Technologies 19 Oct 2016

Grand Canyon, AZ -Fire managers at Grand Canyon National Park anticipate initiating two prescribed burns on the North Rim this week as weather and fuel moisture conditions allow ... Fire managers carefully plan prescribed fires, initiating them only under environmental conditions that are favorable to assuring firefighter and visitor safety and to achieving the desired objectives....

Grand Canyon National Park Fire Managers Plan Prescribed Burns on North Rim (Hopewell Culture National Historical Park)

Edit Public Technologies 19 Oct 2016

Grand Canyon, AZ -Fire managers at Grand Canyon National Park anticipate initiating two prescribed burns on the North Rim this week as weather and fuel moisture conditions allow ... Fire managers carefully plan prescribed fires, initiating them only under environmental conditions that are favorable to assuring firefighter and visitor safety and to achieving the desired objectives....

LETTERS: Keep blood in stock

Edit The Himalayan 19 Oct 2016

Needless to say, well-managed air service has a direct correlation with tourism ... quality of services provided to the tourists by Nepal Airlines Corporation (NAC) is relatively substandard if the high air fares are to be taken into consideration. Moreover, the infrastructure, security and sanitary condition of TIA are pathetic....

Companies brace for climate-friendly alternatives in cooling systems

Edit Arabnews 19 Oct 2016

are ramping up efforts to produce alternative coolants used in air-conditioners and refrigerators, following a global pact to reduce planet-warming greenhouse house gas emissions ... Equipment manufacturers will switch to making systems with alternative coolants as chemical makers produce new HFC substitutes, Francis Dietz, VP of public affairs at trade group Air Conditioning, Heating and Refrigeration Institute....

Datacenter Efficiencies Through Innovative Cooling (Asetek A/S)

Edit Public Technologies 19 Oct 2016

Most servers today have been designed to have high speed and redundant fans in the back of the server, so that cool air can be pulled over the CPUS and heat sinks in order to cool them ... If a significant reduction in the hot air that is produced is achievable, then less Computer Room Air Conditioning (CRAC) is needed, reducing OPEX expenses....

U.S. Department of Transportation Announces Enhanced Protections for Air Travelers, Actions to Promote Airline Competition (US Department of Transportation)

Edit Public Technologies 19 Oct 2016

Department of Transportation (DOT) is taking a number of actions to enhance protections for air travelers and promote competition in the airline industry ... The data will be included in the Department's publicly available monthly Air Travel Consumer Report ... The data will be included in the Department's publicly available monthly Air Travel Consumer Report ... Protecting Air Travelers with Disabilities....

Air Quality Update From CBS4 Medical Editor Dr. Dave Hnida

Edit CBS News 19 Oct 2016

(CBS4) – The air quality along the Front Range region apparently looks worse than it may be from an actual health standpoint for most people ... Translated, that means that if you have heart, lung, or some other chronic condition it might be a good idea to limit your outdoor activity ... depending upon the fire as well as environmental conditions....

Iraqi forces recapture more villages around IS-held Mosul

Edit China Daily 19 Oct 2016

On the west side of the Tigris River, the Iraqi forces and allied paramilitary Sunni and Shiite Hashd Shaabi units, backed by Iraqi and US-led coalition aircraft, recaptured the villages of Lihoud, Abbasiyah, Khuder al-Yas, Bajwaniyah and Tal al-Samen, while moving north to the IS-held town of Shoura, some 30km south of Mosul, a security source from the Operations Command of Nineveh Liberation told Xinhua on condition of anonymity....

Major asbestos violations result in $87,000 in fines for Kirkland employer (State of Washington)

Edit Public Technologies 19 Oct 2016

L&I; cited the company for a second willful-serious violation, with a penalty of $35,000, for failure to do personal air-sample monitoring during asbestos removal work, such as removing popcorn ceilings, at several different job sites. Personal air samples help ensure that the proper respiratory protection is used ... if the conditions still exist....

Delhi’s air quality very poor: SAFAR

Edit The Hindu 19 Oct 2016

The Capital’s air quality on Tuesday took a turn for the worse with monitoring stations across the city recording it in the ‘very poor’ category ... air quality index....

UN seeks safety assurances as ussian, Syrian jets pause strikes

Edit Arabnews 19 Oct 2016

Both Russian and Syrian air raids on Aleppo were suspended on 10 a.m., Shoigu said, describing the suspension as a precursor for the opening of humanitarian corridors for the rebels to leave Aleppo on Thursday, for when Moscow has announced a “humanitarian pause” between 8 a.m ... “Western countries stress the importance of the exclusion of Islamic groups from the Syrian opposition as a condition to send powerful weapons....

TOPICS: Poor air quality

Edit The Himalayan 19 Oct 2016

Air pollution in Nepal, especially in the major cities like Kathmandu, prevails and many scientists have already revealed the poor air quality in the region ... Then the monitoring on air and precipitation started at different sites in the Central Himalayas, Nepal ... Therefore, understanding their concentrations is essential for improving the air quality and reducing human exposure from these toxic pollutants....

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