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Air conditioning 空调行业 Cool innovation 很酷的发明 An upstart hopes to make rival cooling companiessweat 一家新贵公司有望使制冷方面的竞争对手汗流浃背 ON A hot July day in 1902, the world s first air conditioner was switched on in Brooklyn. 1902年的炎热7月，世界上第一台空调在布鲁克林区开始运转。 Since then, air conditioning has saved lives, raised productivity and made the AmericanSouth liveable in the summer. 自从那时起，空调就开始拯救生命、提高生产力，并且让夏天的南非更适于生活。 Yet as it turns 110, critics fume that the technology cooks the planet even as it cools homes. 时值110年后，批抨者们却很不满，因为这项科技成果既加热了地球，也加热了我们的家。 As Stan Cox points out in his book, Losing Our Cool: Uncomfortable Truths About OurAir-Conditioned World, 正如Stan Cox在他所写的《失去我们的清凉：我们这个被空调冷却的世界中，一些让人不安的事实》一书中指出的， America uses more energy for air conditioning than Africa uses for everything. 美国在制冷方面消耗的能源比非洲总的能源消耗还多。 | 
