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What a company says about itself is easy to doubt. So here is what journalists wrote after looking at the product themselves.
YEONGNAM ILBO · 2 MARCH 2019 · SON SEON-WOO
The figures below were reported and printed by the newspaper after the journalist measured them.
1,130 KRW
Electricity for one month
August 2018 · 10 hours a day · 9 kWh
12min
32℃ → 18℃
Time taken to cool the room
22.9%
Oxygen concentration
From 20.9% over the same 12 minutes
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The article also printed the drawback
“The one disadvantage is that the liquid oxygen canister has to be replaced every fifteen days.” We say the same thing.
The comparison was made against a conventional air conditioner in a 105 ㎡ apartment living room; under the same conditions the article reported about KRW 140,000 a month for the conventional unit. The “KRW 5,000 per 30 days” figure shown elsewhere on this site is a deliberately conservative estimate for the current product, which also carries the air sterilisation stage.
Our own note — this is not a like-for-like comparison
The 99% in the article compares the electricity bill only. Liquid oxygen is the refrigerant, so the sustained cooling output differs from a conventional air conditioner. And to date one prototype has been built and tested by us; there is no production or sales record yet. We write it here because the numbers alone can mislead.
Yeongnam Ilbo
“Electricity bills 99% lower than a conventional air conditioner — at half the price”
A reported comparison of the prototype against conventional cooling in a 105 ㎡ living room, checking electricity cost, purchase price, cooling speed and oxygen concentration.
Electronic Times
“An air conditioner that removes fine dust and produces oxygen — launching in the first half”
“An air conditioner that removes ultrafine dust and generates oxygen is coming.” The paper described the combination of heat-exchange and liquid-oxygen vaporisation technology and reported a monthly electricity bill under KRW 2,000.
Green Post Korea
“Sustainable cool — the air conditioner that cools with oxygen, ‘Hanibaram’”
Explaining the −183℃ liquid-oxygen method, the article reported “33℃ down to 18℃ in twelve minutes” and “30 W per hour”, roughly forty times more efficient than a conventional unit drawing 1.2 kW.
Korea Herald Business
“Hanibaram, the first eco-friendly air conditioner”
The article opens with the Kyoto Protocol and greenhouse gases before explaining the liquid-oxygen refrigerant approach. Published in both Korean and English.
Asia Journal
“Pay attention to Hanibaram, eco-friendly air conditioner that will bring natural fresh air to your home”
A product feature in Asia Journal, a Korean-American paper published in Los Angeles, covering the 99.8% oxygen refrigerant approach with no outdoor unit and the IoT remaining-level check.
CRÓNICA Business
“Hanibaram — Ventilador de incógnito”
Picked as one of six products worth noticing at MWC 2021 Barcelona: “it fits discreetly and decoratively into picture frames, televisions and mirrors,” combining ventilation, purification and a biocidal function.
About the Asia Journal page
That Asia Journal page ran in an advertising supplement distributed with the Los Angeles Times. It is not an article in the Los Angeles Times itself. We name the publication plainly so there is no confusion.
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