Focus reports on the two creators behind the E.COOLINE cooling clothing
Heat is a serial killer. The heat wave that swept across Spain in July claimed 771 lives, 337 in the last week of the month alone. In Germany, according to estimates by the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), between Between 1500 and 7000 people die from excessively high temperatures. Up to 25,000 have to be hospitalized with heat-related illnesses. Soon, due to global warming, the number could rise to 150,000 per year, warns a study by the Institute for the World Economy (IM’).
THERE’S SOMETHING BETTER THAN AIR CONDITIONING: COOLING VESTS
What helps against heat death is air conditioning. Almost three billion of them are rattling away around the world, most of them in China and the USA. But They consume an extremely large amount of electricity. Around 3700 billion kilowatt hours (kWh) per year. This pollutes the environment with around two billion tons of C02. (For comparison: the whole of Germany consumed around 520 billion kWh of electricity last year and emitted a total of around 600 million tons CO2). “Air conditioning can save lives,” says Gabriele Renner, 58, “but it is not sustainable at all. We have something better: cooling vests.”
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