--- title: Innovative projects explore ways to deal with extreme heat description: Four MIT research teams, funded by the MIT Climate Project's Critical Cooling initiative with $450,000 in grants, developed novel approaches to combat extreme... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/innovative-projects-explore-ways-to-deal-with-extreme-heat-863uhpqke twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Innovative projects explore ways to deal with extreme heat | daily.dev og:description: Four MIT research teams, funded by the MIT Climate Project's Critical Cooling initiative with $450,000 in grants, developed novel approaches to combat extreme... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/innovative-projects-explore-ways-to-deal-with-extreme-heat-863uhpqke og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/863uhpqke.png og:image:alt: Innovative projects explore ways to deal with extreme heat og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Innovative projects explore ways to deal with extreme heat **[MIT News](https://daily.dev/sources/mit)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Four MIT research teams, funded by the MIT Climate Project's Critical Cooling initiative with $450,000 in grants, developed novel approaches to combat extreme heat. Projects include a wearable personal cooling device costing under $1 to produce in India, subsurface well-based cooling for homes, rubber-based caloric air conditioning that eliminates hydrofluorocarbon refrigerants, and a new chemical refrigerant with zero greenhouse impact. All teams produced initial prototypes and are now seeking further development and funding. The initiative targets vulnerable populations in the Global South who lack access to conventional air conditioning, which currently reaches only 8% of the world's population yet already contributes 3-4% of global warming emissions. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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