
If you’re lucky enough to be staying at the Beverly Hilton or the Waldorf Astoria Beverly Hills hotels any time soon, your green conscience can rest clean – the two luxury hotels are now cutting down on fossil fuels and reducing carbon emissions using an Israeli technology based on ice.
Israeli startup Nostromo Energy has a solution that stores energy in modular ice capsules installed on the roof, walls or basements of commercial and industrial buildings and then directs it to cool down commercial spaces, a procedure that usually accounts for up to 45 percent of global power demand during peak hours.