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Since I am living in a century-old home off-grid without air conditioning during what is shaping up to be the hottest summer on record in the Pacific Northwest, I am learning some lessons on staying cool. First, we need to ...

I don’t know how it is where you live, but where I live, it’s over 100 degrees Fahrenheit half the days of the year. We only end up using our home’s furnace a couple of weeks in January and February ...

Enduring extreme heat during the summer isn’t easy, especially without A.C. But the sooner you learn to adapt to an A.C.-less heat wave, the better off for your household. Not only could you sizably reduce your power usage, it also ...

There’s an old joke about college students hanging ice cubes in front of a fan to stay cool. It’s no joke – and it’s not new. Ancient Egyptians would hang wet palm fronds in the window so that passing breezes ...

It’s common to talk about keeping warm as part of survival, but few people actually bother to talk about keeping cool. Yet, for those of us who live in the south, keeping cool in the summertime can be as much ...

Something as simple as an air conditioner could enable hackers to bring down an entire electric power grid – and it wouldn’t be that difficult for them to do it, according to a new report. The so-called “smart grid” technology ...

It sounds so bizarre that it borders on science fiction, but it’s true. That smart meter on your house can measure how much you use your refrigerator, can adjust the thermostat on your air conditioner, and can even learn what ...