air conditioner

As severe heat grips most of the East, sales in the ice cream, air conditioner, pools, seashore-related and bowling center segments have spiked with the temperature. The solid sales are welcome relief for industries burned by the recession.

It seems not a day goes by that I don't hear of some new method of identity theft or credit card fraud to guard against. And yesterday was no exception. I spotted an article about a group of Huntington bank customers whose debit card information had been used to buy several air conditioners at...

When I was learning how to drive, I was taught that air-conditioning was this enormous drag on gas mileage. I might as well be towing around an anvil behind the car. If I wanted better gas mileage I had to use the wind from the window.Now it turns out that's not quite right. An air conditioner can...

I have always thought that air conditioning units, although quite often necessary, have been some of the most voracious energy consuming appliances out there. Let's face it, an air conditioner has to do the same job that a refrigerator does. However, refrigerators only have to cool those nicely...