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Can water air-condition your house?

Melissa, Jam
Published Aug 27, 2026
32 min

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Melissa and Jam explain how evaporating water can cool a building and why the same approach works much better in dry climates than humid ones. They connect swamp coolers to older cooling techniques and examine newer ideas, including ice-based systems intended to reduce pressure on electricity grids.

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Evaporative coolingHumidityEnergy transfer

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