Sir James Dyson isn’t simply the mastermind behind the world’s most popular and efficient vacuums. No my friends, Dyson is the newest ambassador to tackle one of summer’s most loathsome enemies: air conditioning.
As the world’s climate continues on its progressive path to higher temperatures, naturally, people’s dependence on their air conditioning will follow suit. This however, poses a problem for our ozone layer because as more energy is spent cooling down people’s homes, harmful greenhouse emissions will keep rising.
Being that today is the first full day of summer, it would be very assiduous to ponder that the average American household already uses 2,822 kWh of energy per year, which translates to $276 in air conditioning annually.
However, Sir Dyson has an answer to this steaming debacle. Dyson has now unveiled its new blade-less fans, which it hopes will soon end the heated battle on air conditioning forever.
The technology behind this new innovation seems simple enough... if you’re a gifted engineer that is. The fan works like a jet engine, sucking air into a cyclone accelerator that amplifies it fifteen to eighteen times before blowing it out over an airfoil-shaped ramp. As the air is blown out, more is sucked in from behind. With no blades, the airstream is smooth and the contraption is easier to clean. Most important, the fan runs on a modest forty-watt motor.
While the Dyson fans may not eradicate greenhouse emissions in total, their innovative and ecologically mindful thinking behind them is certainly a step (or flow) in the right direction. Have YOU helped save the world today?
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