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Keeping buildings cool by sending heat into outer space

06 Sep 2017
Photograph of rooftop cooling panels
Cool running: rooftop cooling panels
With about 15% of the world’s electricity used for cooling, making air-conditioning systems mo

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Edwin Cartlidge is a science writer based in the UK
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