Cool Stuff
Well over 40% of all the energy consumed in Europe's cities goes into buildings - the majority of that is used in heating or cooling.
Wow.
Copper is the engineering designer's choice for electrical heaters and air-conditioners - and the latest designs are more energy-efficient than ever before. New alloys are ensuring leak-free air-conditioning and even reducing the bacteria that are said to cause "sick-building syndrome".
But it doesn't end there. Copper forms the cooling parts and electrical systems in process-cooling too - and not just in power plants. From within an hour of being harvested to the minute it reaches your mouth, food is refrigerated in storage, transit and display. The better we can do this, the less food we waste.