Play it cool
Designers push for ways to green up air-conditioning, a major culprit of global warming
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Ms Maria Yzabell Angel Palma is the inventor of the AirDisc cooling technology and a winner of the 2019 James Dyson Award. The 22-year-old says her air-conditioner prototype runs on just 10 per cent of the electricity that a conventional air-conditioning unit needs.
PHOTO: JAMES DYSON AWARD
The growing need to cool down is causing the world to heat up.
Air-conditioners, which release an enormous amount of waste heat into the environment during the cooling process, are one of the major culprits of global warming.