If you’re fairly new to Arizona, you may have heard a lot about evaporative coolers and you may be wondering what they’re used for. At one time, the coolers were the way that most of the state’s ...

Is evaporative cooling of gas turbines only suited for hot dry areas of California, Nevada and Arizona and not in humid areas of Florida or the colder climates of the North? The answer is no.

Let’s start off by understanding what exactly evaporative cooling is. This term describes a system that takes advantage of the reduction in temperature resulting from the evaporation of (in our case) ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... When GerRee Anderson and her husband bought their Wheat Ridge home a couple of years ago, its aging metal evaporative cooler was working, but earlier this ...

Arizona homeowners love their outdoor lifestyle, but now and then — like 6 p.m. in mid-July — it gets a little too hot to sit outside on the covered patio. And cooking on your grill? It makes you melt ...

As the days get hotter and muggier, you're probably looking for the best ways to keep it cool – especially the bedroom before you need to sleep. When it comes to really effective cooling that doesn't ...

Refrigeration today is something we can easily take for granted. But in the early 1800s, there was one entirely different ...

When GerRee Anderson and her husband bought their Wheat Ridge home a couple of years ago, its aging metal evaporative cooler was working, but earlier this month it started to falter. Then the ...