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Companies Examine New Ways to Keep Buildings Cool

The International Air-Conditioning Heating Refrigerating Exposition, or AHR Expo, is also taking place in Anaheim in late January, and will feature two products that use an innovative thermodynamic process called the "Maisotsenko Cycle." Though the process is too technical to explain here, the results are astounding: Idalex Technologies, Inc. claims its prototype condenser for air conditioners, refrigerators, and freezers is 57 percent more efficient than today's high-efficiency products. And its air conditioner, marketed as the Coolerado Cooler, is a commercial product that the company claims is the most efficient air conditioner ever made, with an EER of 40. The air conditioner is powered only by a fan (there's no compressor) and was demonstrated at a school in Denver in October 2003, in partnership with the Colorado Governor's Office of Energy Management and Conservation (OEMC). To learn about the Maisotsenko Cycle and Idalex's products, see the Idalex Technologies Web site and the OEMC press release.