DEVap, the new air conditioning process uses 90% less energy

When it comes to summers, I love them, as we finally do away with those heavy clothes, but with summers also comes the heavy billing of extensive air conditioning that we use. But, with a new technology being developed by the scientists at the National Renewable Energy Lab, a new air conditioning process called DEVap has been developed, having the potential to use 90% less energy than our traditional ACs. The lab to achieve such super efficient results has used membranes, evaporative cooling and liquid desiccants.

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DEVap uses desiccants to remove that humidity from the cooled air. DEVap also eliminates the production of harmful chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and hydro chlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs) with the use of salt solutions. If this technology is brought to the market, then we could end up saving power and money in huge amounts. However, the lab is still hard at work on the improvement in the technology, so I am already seeing this technology over the horizon, coming to us in the best form in few years.

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Via: Inhabitat/Treehugger