How Paris uses the Seine to cool thousands of buildings without AC
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Every air conditioner does the same thing: pull heat from inside a building and dump it outside. On a hot day, millions of units doing that together push street temperatures up, which makes the next hot day worse. “Everything that requires energy releases heat, and that heat has to go somewhere,” said Sophie Parison, a researcher in Paris focused on urban heat and cooling. Paris has been building a different model for thirty years and is now planning to tripl
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