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India Needs To Turn the Air-Con On
jeudi 29 mai 2025, 22:21 , par Slashdot
![]() The cooling effect creates a dangerous trade-off: cleaner air would accelerate temperature rises just as the country desperately needs relief from intensifying heat waves. Only one in ten Indian households owns air conditioning, compared to two-thirds in China and four-fifths in Malaysia, despite air-conditioner sales doubling between 2020 and 2024. During heat waves, cooling systems already account for one-fifth of power demand, mostly supplied by coal plants that worsen the pollution problem India must eventually solve. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/05/29/2011206/india-needs-to-turn-the-air-con-on?utm_source=rss1....
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