May 20, 2013

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IMPO Magazine - RAM Grinding Cools Off

IMPO Magazine – Kellogg’s Goes Green, Stays Cool

May 3, 2013
Kellogg’s is making great strides toward sustainability, which include choosing energy-efficient air conditioners to cool its plant in Mexicali, Mexico. (Link to Article)


LONG Building Technologies Partners with Coolerado to Offer High-Efficiency Air Conditioning

LONG Building Technologies Partners with Coolerado to Offer High-Efficiency Air Conditioning

April 22, 2013
LONG Building Technologies, Inc., provider of building systems technologies, announced today a partnership with Coolerado Corporation. (Link to Press Release)


Coolerado Units Help Data Center Cut Energy Use

Coolerado Units Help Data Center Cut Energy Use

April 19, 2013
The National Snow and Ice Data Center in Colorado cut its overall data center power consumption by 70 percent utilizing Coolerado air conditioners last year, the air conditioning company has announced. (Link to Article)


Facilities Net - Coolerado Data Center Customers Reducing Cooling Costs Up To 90 Percent

Facilities Net – Coolerado Data Center Customers Reducing Cooling Costs Up To 90 Percent

April 16, 2013
Coolerado announces revolutionary customer cost savings at both Green House Data and the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC). (Link to Article)


Coolerado Data Center Customers Reducing Cooling Costs up to 90 Percent

Coolerado Data Center Customers Reducing Cooling Costs up to 90 Percent

April 9, 2013
The NSIDC and Green House Data Centers Significantly Lower PUE and Energy Usage Last 12 Months Using Coolerado Solutions… (Link to Press Release)


Sustainability and a Coolerado Encounter

Sustainability and a Coolerado Encounter

February 12, 2013
This NSIDC features a 40 ton Coolerado Evaporative cooling system. The energy demand for the mechanical system during my tour was an astounding 900 watts. (Link to Article)


Artificial cooling makes hot places bearable—but at a worryingly high cost

Artificial cooling makes hot places bearable—but at a worryingly high cost

January 5, 2013
Puritans sometimes forget that air conditioning was invented with the efficiency of machines, not the comfort of people, in mind. (Link to Article)


Diana DeGette's clean-energy tour to Coolerado

Green relief from summer heat is on the way

July 16, 2012
Coloradoans struggling to stay cool during these dog days of summer have some environmentally friendly relief on the way. (Link to Press Release)


Diana DeGette's clean-energy tour to Coolerado

Diana DeGette’s clean-energy tour to Coolerado

June 14, 2012
Leaders from Coolerado explained to Congresswoman Diana DeGette how they are turning the traditional air conditioning process upside down… (Link to Article)


Army enlisting help to make its bases energy independent

Army enlisting help to make its bases energy independent

June 3, 2012
The base is using a high-efficiency cooling system at the events center, developed by Denver-based Coolerado Corp… (Link to Article)


Uptime Institute commends Facebook for Audacious Idea

Uptime Institute commends Facebook for ‘Audacious Idea’

April 17, 2012
RMH Group’s National Snow and Ice Data Center project took the facility-retrofit award… (Link to Article)


Coolerado Corporation Announces Partnership with Symantek Solutions

Coolerado Corporation Announces Partnership with Symantek Solutions

January 31, 2012
Symantek Solutions has confirmed an agreement with Coolerado to distribute Coolerado’s energy efficient air conditioners… (Link to Article)


Facilities Net - Coolerado Corporation Air Conditioner

Facilities Net – Coolerado Corporation Air Conditioner

November 17, 2011
The M30, M50 and C60 use a heat and mass exchanger to cool the air delivered into the space. The heat and mass exchanger consists of several plates of a special plastic designed to… (Link to Article)


IMPO Magazine - RAM Grinding Cools Off

IMPO Magazine – RAM Grinding Cools Off

September 2011
At RAM Grinding, precision is measured in ten-thousandths of an inch… With those tight margins, the company needed a consistent air temperature to prevent metal expansion and errors. (Link to Article)


Phoenix New Times - Hillstone Restaurant's Got Air Conditioned Patio Tables and They're Pretty Cool

Phoenix New Times – Hillstone Restaurant’s Got Air Conditioned Patio Tables and They’re Pretty Cool

August 22, 2011
Think dining outside in the summer sun sans misters is a lost cause? You might want to read this. Hillstone, the Central Phoenix restaurant and part of the Hillstone Restaurant Group which includes Houston’s… (Link to Article)


Coolerado outfits National Snow and Ice Data Center

Coolerado outfits National Snow and Ice Data Center

September 16, 2011
Coolerado, manufacturer of the world’s most energy efficient air conditioners, has completed its installation at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) in Boulder, Colorado. (more)


Inc. Magazine Unveils Its Annual Exclusive List of America’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies—the Inc.500|5000

Inc. Magazine Unveils Its Annual Exclusive List of America’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies—the Inc.500|5000

August 23, 2011
Inc. magazine today ranked Coolerado No. 652 on its fifth annual Inc. 500|5000, an exclusive ranking of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies. (more)


Cooling Efficiency Trends Possible Cause for Lower Stats

Cooling Efficiency Trends Possible Cause for Lower Stats

August 19, 2011
Earlier this month, Jonathan G. Koomey published a report on the Growth in Data Center Electricity Use 2005 to 2010. (Link to Article)


Coolerado Corporation Announces Strategic Partnership with CIASA

Coolerado Corporation Announces Strategic Partnership with CIASA to Distribute Energy Efficient Air Conditioners

August 12, 2011
CIASA (Clima e Ingenieria Ambiental S.A. de C.V.) developers of air conditioning and installation projects in the Mexican market for 18 years, has confirmed the opportunity to distribute Coolerado’s energy efficient air conditioners into Central Mexico. (more)


Coolerado Wins Green Business of the Year

Coolerado Wins Green Business of the Year

May 13, 2011
Coolerado was awarded the Green Business of the Year by the Denver Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday, May 4th at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Downtown Denver. (more)


ACREX Award of Excellence 2011

ACREX Award of Excellence 2011

FEBRUARY 28, 2011
ACME Tele Power Ltd, in technical collaboration with Coolerado Corporation, won the coveted ACREX Award of Excellence 2011 in the Green product category. (more)


NewWorld Capital

NewWorld Capital Group invests in Coolerado Corporation

OCTOBER 25, 2010
NewWorld Capital Group today announced a strategic investment in Coolerado Corporation, a manufacturer of super-energy-efficient air conditioning systems for commercial and residential applications. (more)


9news.com

Revolutionary air conditioner could cool world more efficiently

September 2010
DENVER – This summer’s heat has had a lot of families and businesses dreading their electric bills, but a new type of air conditioner built by a Colorado Company to Watch may help to lower those bills and reduce the demand for power, especially on the hottest summer days. (more)


Rebirth of the Cool

Rebirth of the Cool

May 2010
Looking back, the founders don’t mind that the DOE shot them down the first time around. “[Being rejected] was actually kind of good,” says Rick Gillan. “It prompted us to say that we can do it and that we are doing it.” (more)


Coolerado Is Cool for Air-Conditioning

Coolerado Is Cool for Air-Conditioning

March 2010
The 5-ton H80 hybrid commercial rooftop air-conditioning unit developed by Coolerado Corporation was the first winner of the University of California–Davis Western Cooling Challenge in August 2009. NREL helped Coolerado develop its innovative cooling core, and provided testing and analysis of early prototypes, as well as of the initial product offering. (more)


Newport Beach Lifestyle

Newport Beach Lifestyle Real Estate – Colorado Company Markets Cool New Product

February 2010
A Colorado air conditioning manufacturer is making news with a product line that might revolutionize how Americans cool their homes and businesses. (more)


Indoor Comfort News

Indoor Comfort News – Western Cooling Challenge

January 2010
The UC Davis Western Cooling Efficiency Center (WCEC) has recognized equipment producer Coolerado Corporation of Denver, Colo., as the first certified “winner” of the “Western Cooling Challenge.” (more)


Popular Science

Coolerado H80 – Winner of Popular Science “Best of What’s New 2009

November 2009 – Green Tech Category
Coolerado’s rooftop air conditioner handles dry weather more than twice as efficiently as anything else, cutting energy consumption in the hottest, most AC-dependent desert areas. (more)


Department of Energy

Coolerado Awarded $750,000 Tax Credit to Support Green Economy

“This award marks another positive step in the development of Coolerado and our energy efficient air conditioners. Not only will this credit support us in the expansion of our manufacturing facilities for clean and green air conditioners in Denver, but it will allow us to continue to add green jobs in an economy struggling to create jobs,” said Mark Heller, Controller of Coolerado. (more)


Georgia Power Day Care

Georgia Power Day Care – Case Study

Additionally, the building utilized a fairly unique evaporative cooling system called the Coolerado which uses harvested rainwater as coolant. By tapping into renewable, atmospheric energy, Coolerado uses about one fourth the amount of electricity of a traditional air-conditioner. (more)


Time for Kids Almanac

Coolerado Makes 2010 Time for Kids Almanac

Another innovative product is the Coolerado air conditioner. It uses up to 90% less energy than a conventional unit and does not use environmentally dangerous chemicals.
(more)


Pure Energy Systems News

Coolerado’s super-efficient air conditioning expanded to include small residences

September 2009 – Pure Energy Systems News – By Sterling D. Allen
“This last Monday I interviewed Mike Luby, CEO of Coolerado, makers of a line of air conditioners that they say are the most efficient available – able to cut AC energy usage by as much as 90%.” (more)


Coolerado Wins UC Davis Western Cooling Challenge

Coolerado Wins UC Davis Western Cooling Challenge

8/13/09 – UC Davis News and Information
The first certified winner of the UC Davis “Western Cooling Challenge” is Coolerado Corp. of Denver. Recent federal tests showed that their five-ton commercial rooftop unit should be able to air-condition a typical big-box store with less than half the energy needed by conventional cooling units. (more)


DIY Network Films Coolerado

DIY Network Films Coolerado

7/29/09
On July 29th, DIY Network’s Matt Blashaw, host of the show Deconstruction, visited Coolerado to film an upcoming show on how Coolerado air conditoners operate so efficiently. (more)


HVAC Pro News - Mountain West - June 2009

HVAC Pro News – Mountain West

June 2009 – HVAC Pro News – by Jeff Polk
Montbello Branch Library in Denver is now a little bit greener thanks to 8 Coolerado M-50′s. Mayor Hickenlooper and others spoke at the library on a brisk spring morning in May about the city’s dedication to making Denver a ‘greener’ place to live and work. (more)


Air Conditioner Uses Just 600 watts – 3 or 4 Solar Panels

Air Conditioner Uses Just 600 watts – 3 or 4 Solar Panels

6/10/09 – Home Design Find – by Susan Kraemer
For homeowners considering solar in hot climates, the back of the solar panel is key to solar efficiency. Solar panels need to be cool to work most efficiently. (more)


Colorado Company Markets Cool New Product

Colorado Company Markets Cool New Product

6/8/09 – Mortgage News Daily – by Jann Swanson
A Colorado air conditioning manufacturer is making news with a product line that might revolutionize how Americans cool their homes and businesses. (more)


Call to Government Leaders - Get Ready for Summer by Decreasing Your Air Conditioning Load 10-Fold with Coolerado

Call to Government Leaders – Get Ready for Summer by Decreasing Your Air Conditioning Load 10-Fold with Coolerado

5/27/09 – Press Release – by Rick Gillan
Adopt a Big Green Initiative and Cut Energy Costs, Create Green Collar Jobs, Stay Net Water Zero, Utilize Solar Energy. (more)


Cool prospects for green Colo. AC company

Cool prospects for green Colo. AC company

5/22/09 – Denver Post – By Gargi Chakrabarty
Early doubters evaporated after seeing Coolerado Corp.’s air-cooling systems in action. Now the company is expanding. (more)


Dr. Maisotsenko Recognized by Denver Mayor Hickenlooper

Dr. Maisotsenko Recognized by Denver Mayor Hickenlooper

5/22/09 – Gorizont – First Russian Newspaper in Colorado
Dr. Maisotsenko, Coolerado’s Chief Scientist, former director of the Thermal Physics Research Laboratory in the Ukraine, and inventor of the M-Cycle which drives Coolerado products, is recognized by Mayor Hickenlooper at the Green Buildings, Green Jobs energy event. (more)


Green Buildings, Green Jobs Celebration

Green Buildings, Green Jobs Celebration

5/13/09 – Event Report – by Rick Gillan
On Wednesday, May 13th, Montbello Branch Library joined with Denver’s Mayor John Hickenlooper, the Coolerado Corporation, library staff, patrons and city workers as the library furthered its ‘Green’ initiative by turning on their new Coolerado M50 cooling system. (more)


Energy Fair is Conduit for Information

Energy Fair is Conduit for Information

5/12/09 – Desert Valley Times – By Bob Challinor
Renewable energy is no longer relegated to pie-in-the-sky discussions between green living advocates. Saturday’s Mesquite Energy Fair demonstrated how renewable resources have gone mainstream. (more)


Business and Finance - Mesquite Energy Fair

Business and Finance – Mesquite Energy Fair

5/5/09 – Desert Valley Times – By Bob Challinor
Charlie Goessman is bringing what may be one of the most exciting show-and-tell exhibits… a trailer outfitted with a solar photovoltaic system and an energy-efficient “Coolerado” air conditioning unit. (more)


Catching up with energy-efficient cooling systems: Coolerado

Catching up with energy-efficient cooling systems: Coolerado

April 2009 – Western Area Power Administration
Cooling season is fast approaching—in some parts of Western’s territory, it’s already here—so it is a good time to revisit two promising, energy-efficient, cooling technologies that could help utilities control this rapidly growing summer load. (more)


Coolerado's AC Technology Consumes 90% Less Electricity

Coolerado’s AC Technology Consumes 90% Less Electricity

4/3/09 – Blue Planet Green Living – by Joe Hennager
Cooling season is fast approaching—in some parts of Western’s territory, it’s already here—so it is a good time to revisit two promising, energy-efficient, cooling technologies that could help utilities control this rapidly growing summer load. (more)


Coolerado seeks hot sales for solar-powered AC unit

Coolerado seeks hot sales for solar-powered AC unit

2/13/09 – Denver Business Journal – by Cathy Proctor
A Denver-based company that makes high-tech air conditioners isn’t letting the recession get in the way of success. And the effects of global warming don’t hurt either. Coolerado Corp. plans to boost sales from between 100 and 150 units in 2008 to 5,000 units, with a corresponding rise in profitability. (more)


The Earth Times

Coolerado Receives Renewable Energy Award

1/29/09 – The Earth Times
DENVER – Coolerado Corporation, manufacturers of high efficiency air conditioners, today announced the company received the prestigious “Governor’s Excellence in Renewable Energy Award” from Colorado Governor Bill Ritter this week for the outstanding contributions made by a small business… (more)


The Green Hour Interview with Rick Gillan

The Green Hour Interview with Rick Gillan

10/17/08 – The Green Hour – Interview with Harry O
Harry O of “The Green Hour” interviews Coolerado’s Rick Gillan about the revolutionary technology of Coolerado air conditioners. (more)


Federal Energy Management Program

Federal Energy Management Program

March, 2007 – U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
U.S. Department of Energy releases report titled “Coolerado [Air Conditioner] Helps to Save Cooling Energy and Dollars: New cooling technology targets peak load reduction” Link to Article


Denver Business Journal

Coolerado Colorado has a hot A/C idea

6/24/05 – Denver Business Journal – by Sharon Gillen
Billed as the most efficient air conditioner ever made, the Coolerado Cooler may be one of the hottest inventions ever to come out of Colorado — and has left the A/C industry frozen in astonishment. (more)


Energy Services Bulletin

New Cooler Combines Comfort, Efficiency

June, 2005 – Energy Services Bulletin
A revolutionary new cooling technology that delivers the comfort of an air conditioner with the efficiency of an evaporative cooler is creating a big buzz among utilities and energy and facility managers. (more)


Appliance Design Magazine

Refrigeration & Air Conditioning: Converting Disbelievers

4/1/05 – Appliance Design Magazine – by Karen Buscemi
Thermodynamic cycle proves the impossible is here and ready to use. Physics and thermodynamic students are taught that it is theoretically impossible to cool below the wet bulb temperature of air by evaporating water. (more)


SMUD

SMUD

September, 2004 – Technology Brief – The Coolerado [Air Conditioner]
A candid brief on how a Coolerado Air Conditioner replaced a failed indirect-direct evaporative cooler with planned follow up reports. details – PDF format


R&D Magazine

Water Blows Hot Air

September, 2004 – R&D Magazine
The sweltering heat of dry regions is not only uncomfortable but can lead to illnesses. To improve living conditions, cooling solutions – which require chemical refrigerants, like Freon, or expensive, polluting, and energy-consuming compressors – are used. (more)


Low-Energy Cooling Technology Looks Hot

Low-Energy Cooling Technology Looks Hot

8/23/04 – THE HVACR CONTRACTOR’S WEEKLY NEWSMAGAZINE – By Joanna R. Turpin
The American Dream is alive and well. No one can attest to that fact better than Dr. Valeriy Maisotsenko. The Ukrainian inventor fled the U.S.S.R. in 1992 with only his family, research papers, and dog in tow. (more)


NREL

Congressmen Tour the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory

2/18/04 – Golden, Colorado
Unofficially, these four U.S. Congressmen had to be “pulled away” from the Coolerado demonstration cooler, which is sitting on the table behind them. (more)


The Daily Journal

Local Technology Provides High A/C Efficiency

1/27/04 – The Daily Journal – McGraw Hill Construction – Dodge – Colorado/Wyoming
A federal appeals court decided Jan. 13 to keep higher energy-efficiency standards for central air conditioners in place. The department of Energy had sought to lower the manufacturer’s requirement to increase efficiency standards from 30 to 20 percent by 2006… (more)


Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

Companies Examine New Ways to Keep Buildings Cool

1/21/04 – Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
With the International Builders Show in progress in Las Vegas, Nevada, you can be sure a lot of building professionals are thinking about how to keep buildings cool, and companies throughout the country are examining a range of techniques to accomplish that goal. (more)


Refocus The International Renewable Energy Magazine

Tapping Atmospheric Energy

November / December 2003 – Refocus The International Renewable Energy Magazine
Idalex Technologies, a research and development company, has discovered and demonstrated that they can capture significant amounts of energy from the atmosphere. (more)


POWER magazine, by Platts/McGraw Hill

Life below the wet bulb: The Maisotsenko cycle

November / December 2003 – POWER magazine, by Platts/McGraw Hill – By Ken Wicker
For several years, the humid air turbine (HAT) cycle has promised a new way to generate electricity more efficiently and cost-effectively than combined-cycle power plants. However, practical limitations have prevented the HAT cycle from being commercialized. (more)


POWER magazine, by Platts/McGraw Hill

The Coolerado Cooler for Combustion Turbine Cycles

November / December 2003 – A supplement to the POWER magazine article – By Ken Wicker
According to GE: “An inlet cooling system is a useful gas turbine option for applications where significant operation occurs in the warm months and where low relative humidities are common.(more)


NREL

U.S. Dignitaries look at Coolerado Cooler

July 2003 – Golden, Colorado
U.S. Secretary of Energy, Spencer Abraham tour of Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory. (more)


Nikkei

Venture Business of Japan and the U.S.

1/26/03 – Nihon Keizai, Japan’s Leading Business Newspaper
DEHUMIDIFYING, AIR CONDITIONING BY EVAPORATION HALF THE RUNNING COST OF AIR-CONDITIONING THREE VENTURE BUSINESS OF JAPAN AND THE U.S.(more)