This Sleek, Climate-Friendly Cooling Unit Reduces The Footprint of HVA
28th July 2021
Gradient, a San Francisco-based startup, is designing an alternative that can help tackle the challenges of traditional air conditioners—and that doubles as an efficient heater when it’s cold. When it’s used both for heating and cooling, the device can shrink the carbon footprint of heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) by 75%. As the grid shifts to renewable energy, that footprint could essentially be eliminated completely, so turning on the AC doesn’t have the ironic effect of making future heat waves more likely through global warming.
Both heating and cooling, customized to each room. No massively expensive and fragile central furnace/compressor system, no ducts snaking through your attic needing to be cleaned. If one craps out, it only affects that room, and can be replaced for the cost of one unit.
I’m in.