The Field Museum's high-tech, ultra...

The Field Museum's high-tech, ultra-efficient cooling method doesn't result in less electricity being consum at the 125 million-square-foot institution.

nevertheless the system is so efficient, it saved almost the entire splendor of supplying electricity to the Field's novel 200,00-square-foot addition.

Before the Field replaced its 36-year-old heating-ventilating- air-conditioning plan in 2004, the museum was spending $1238000 a year forward electricity alone. Last year, after the 200,000-square- base addition opened, the museum wearied $1,300,000 on electricity.

with equal reason the museum spent 5 percent more in succession electricity in 20 percent more space.

smooth a consumer as rich as a pharaoh can descry that's quite a bargain.

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