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  2. Energy efficiency in transport - Wikipedia

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    On a percentage basis, if there is one occupant in an automobile, only about 0.5% of the total energy used is used to move the person in the car, while the remaining 99.5% (about 200 times more) is used to move the car itself. An important driver of energy consumption of cars per passenger is the occupancy rate of the vehicle.

  3. Coefficient of performance - Wikipedia

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    Less work is required to move heat than for conversion into heat, and because of this, heat pumps, air conditioners and refrigeration systems can have a coefficient of performance greater than one. The COP is highly dependent on operating conditions, especially absolute temperature and relative temperature between sink and system, and is often ...

  4. Air conditioning - Wikipedia

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    The units went on sale in 1932 at US$10,000 to $50,000 (the equivalent of $200,000 to $1,100,000 in 2023.) [20] A year later, the first air conditioning systems for cars were offered for sale. [34] Chrysler Motors introduced the first practical semi-portable air conditioning unit in 1935, [ 35 ] and Packard became the first automobile ...

  5. Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning - Wikipedia

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    The first residential AC was installed by 1914, and by the 1950s there was "widespread adoption of residential AC". [ 13 ] The invention of the components of HVAC systems went hand-in-hand with the Industrial Revolution , and new methods of modernization, higher efficiency, and system control are constantly being introduced by companies and ...

  6. Ton of refrigeration - Wikipedia

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    Just as horsepower and candlepower were intuitive units of measure for people living through the transition from horse to steam power [3] and from flame-based to electric lighting, so was the ton of refrigeration an intuitive unit of measure during a technological change, as the ice trade gradually included growing percentages of artificial ice ...

  7. British thermal unit - Wikipedia

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    The SI unit of power for heating and cooling systems is the watt. Btu per hour (Btu/h) is sometimes used in North America and the United Kingdom - the latter for air conditioning mainly, though "Btu/h" is sometimes abbreviated to just "Btu". [18] MBH—thousands of Btu per hour—is also common. [19] 1 W is approximately 3.412142 Btu/h [20]

  8. Markets stumble as Wall Street sells off Big Tech - AOL

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    US stocks ended Friday in the red, closing out a lackluster week despite a year of historic highs.. The Dow was lower by 333 points, or 0.78%, after the closing bell.

  9. Power-to-weight ratio - Wikipedia

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    Toshiba 660 MVA water cooled 23 kV AC turbo generator: 1,342 t 2,959,000 lb 660 MW 890,000 hp 0.49 kW/kg 0.30 hp/lb Bayswater, Eraring coal-fired power stations: Canopy Tech. Cypress 32 MW 15 kV AC PM generator [29] 33,557 kg 73,981 lb 32 MW 43,000 hp 0.95 kW/kg 0.58 hp/lb Electric power stations: Turncircles AF24PM–S axial flux motor [30]