While Europe is responding to heat waves by buying more air conditioners,
China is deploying infrastructure that cools public space at a fraction of the energy cost.
Rooftops across Shanxi province are fitted with mist nozzles that spray droplets fine enough to evaporate before they hit the ground.
They switch on automatically at 35°C and drop surrounding air temperature by 5 to 8°C within minutes. The same system now runs at bus stops in Chongqing, public squares in Beijing and Wuhan.
The technology is not new. Evaporative cooling is textbook thermodynamics. What is new is that a government decided to fund the rollout at city scale before anyone wrote a policy paper about it.
Nintendo has officially announced price increases for the Nintendo Switch 2 and related products due to rising costs and current business conditions.
>United States: $449.99 to $499.99 >Canada: CA$629.99 to CA$679.99 >Europe: €469.99 to €499.99 (effective September 1) >Japan: ¥49,980 to ¥59,980 (effective May 25)
The price adjustments will also affect existing Nintendo Switch hardware and Nintendo Switch Online subscriptions in Japan.
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