The passive-house building standard relies on lots of insulation and intentional design to use as little energy as possible for heating and cooling. "Things like 'passive house' have become more ...

With the mercury rising steadily, architects share projects that are cool in more ways than one ...

An international research team has built a cooling tech consisting of heat absorber pipes that are thermally connected to the PV module, heat releaser pipes that exchange heat with the water body, a ...

Passive cooling refers to technologies or design features that lower the temperature in spaces without the need for power consumption. The strategy uses free, renewable sources of energy (wind and sun ...

A research team at Korea University has created a passive cooling system for solar panels that uses a water desorption process and endothermic reaction dissolution process. The method is similar to ...

Modern air conditioning and heating systems are convenient, but costly. Implementing ancient knowledge could help to reduce our reliance on them.

Belgian startup Calyos is developing fully passive, two-phase cooling systems built in Europe, targeting data centres, mobility, and defence—with validation from NATO’s DIANA programme.