as one of the
"top 100 most technologically significantly products" introduced into the
international marketplace. Providing fresh, filtered, comfortable air from the
outside they can be sized for industrial, commercial and residential settings.
Can be used without or without solar system.
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The United States Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, Colorado purchased one of these units in 2004 to help cool their Thermal Testing Laboratory.
Before permanently installing this air conditioner in the building, it was extensively tested using NREL’s world class test equipment. The unit performed so well that it was judged ‘disruptive technology’.
A disruptive technology as described in Wikipedia is a technology that is "particularly threatening to the leaders of an existing market, because they are competition coming from an unexpected direction. A disruptive technology can come to dominate an existing market by either filling a role in a new market that the older technology could not fill (as cheaper, lower capacity but smaller-sized flash memory is doing for personal data storage in the 2000s) or by successively moving up-market through performance improvements until finally displacing the market incumbents (as digital photography has largely replaced film photography)."
Industrial Case Study
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COMPARISON |
TRADITIONAL A/C |
QTY
3 STR600S |
|
Peak Demand |
30,000 Watts |
3,000 Watts |
|
Electricity Cost |
$5,430.00 |
$511.00 |
|
Water Cost |
$0 |
$132.00 |
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Total Annual Operating Cost |
$5,430.00 |
$643.00 |
|
10 Year Operating Cost |
$47,000.00 |
$6,430.00 |
