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Do you know what the term subcooling means? This is the condition where liquid refrigerant is colder than the minimum temperature required to keep it from boiling, which would change it from a liquid to a gas phase. Subcooling is the difference between its saturation temperature and the actual liquid refrigerant temperature.

You know movies are pretty realistic these days, but it wasn't so long ago that even flushing the toilet on screen was considered too graphic for movies and television. Care to guess the name of the first motion picture that showed a toilet being flushed? That would be Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 masterpiece, "Psycho."

Did you know that evaporative cooling systems have actually been in use for thousands of years? This approach to cooling is believed to have been developed in Persia in the form of towers that would catch the wind and funnel it past water to cool it.

How can you reduce the flow of water from a faucet in your home? The screw-on top on a faucet is called an aerator and it controls the flow of water. New sink faucets typically are set to restrict water flow to 2.2 gallons per minute. It’s possible to purchase an aerator that will lower that flow rate to 1 gpm.

When someone talks about the efficiency of a furnace, they're talking about the annual fuel utilization efficiency, or AFUE. This tries to represent a season-long average of amount in to amount produced. For example, a 90% efficient furnace produced 90 BTU of heat for every 100 BTU of gas.