The Cold Tube in TODAY
TODAY featured the novel radiant cooling technology developed by the Cold Tube team as a way to beat the outdoor heat in humid Singapore without air conditioning.
The Cold Tube project was featured in TODAY's article external pageIn the works: 'Cold Tube' to beat the head in humid Singapore without aircon on 19 January.
The project by the 12-member team was started last year as a collaboration led by the Singapore-ETH Centre, bringing together the University of California Berkeley and Princeton University from the United States, as well as University of British Columbia in Canada.
Project manager and PhD candidate Eric Teitelbaum, began his first tests last January in a “laboratory” in Princeton University. “I turned the bathroom into Singapore. I taped the doors shut, humidified and heated the air in the middle of winter in New Jersey,” he said. He soon built a physical Cold Tube lab in Singapore after he started on the project, hosted at the Dover campus of the United World College South East Asia. The project is supported by the Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise (CREATE) under the National Research Foundation.
The team hopes to see the technology being implemented at bus stops, hawker centres and sheltered walkways in the future.