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Show How To Beat The Heat tree produces enougn oxygen oxy-gen to supply four people for one year. Just about everybody knows the shade from a tree can make life much more bearable on hot days, but did you know a lounge chair under a canopy of leaves is in a temperature as much as eight degrees lower than the open area around it? If the same tree is shading a window win-dow from direct sun rays, the temperature inside can be lowered by 20 degrees. According to the American Association of Nurserymen, other benefits from nature's green, growing gifts are equally important. For example, in mechanical mechani-cal air conditioning, air washers are designed to produce pro-duce contact between air and water to transfer heat and moisture between the two and to remove impurities impuri-ties from the air. Trees and other plants accomplish this naturally on a massive scale. One study published by the U. S. Department of the Interior showed that a beech tree standing alone in the open releases 75 to 100 gallons of water into the atmosphere during a summer sum-mer day. Expressed another way, a mature tree in front of a home can produce a cooling effect equal to 10 room-size" air conditioners running 20 hours a day. |