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When it comes to choosing the right heating and cooling systems for their houses, U.S. homeowners have so many issues to consider in the early 21st century, it might make some of them hot under the collar:

Is there a solution that can save on energy bills in a challenging economy? Are there options available that are environmentally-friendly? And how can I be sure that the system I install won’t send allergens and pollutants to my kids’ rooms along with all that hot and cold air?

Mitsubishi Electric Cooling and Heating Solutions has maintained that it had the answers to those questions – long before the latest recession, the trend toward green initiatives and the rise of childhood asthma rates in the U.S. The company’s technology breakthroughs include ductless air conditioning, “smart” compressors that vary energy output depending on temperatures achieved, the use of nanotechnology to help filter out pollutants and the ability to vary climate controls in different rooms. Yet it has probably seemed to homeowners that they have had few choices in providing comfortable temperatures in their homes.

“They either had a big ugly central air conditioning unit that was inefficient and used up a tremendous amount of energy, or they had a window unit that they stuck in a window, which was ugly and noisy,” said Bud Nardello, Mitsubishi Electric’s vice president of sales. “That (window unit) was the only solution they had for the problem of heating and cooling a particular space in the house. There’s never a home that I’ve ever been in where every room was comfortable. There’s always a hot spot or a cold spot.”

The hot trend in cooling and heating systems has been solutions that can save on energy costs, which can also lessen the impact on the environment. Mitsubishi Electric says it began solving that problem when it first introduced ductless air conditioning and heating systems into the U.S. market 30 years ago.

Company product manager Chuck Applebee explains how ductless systems solve the energy cost riddle:

“It takes energy to move air, and air is heavy, and you’ve got to push it around in ductwork,” Applebee said. “Refrigerant on the other hand is much easier to move because the compressor is forcing the refrigerant through tubes, through pipes from the outdoor unit to the indoor unit.  And that’s much easier and takes much less energy than pushing a large amount of air.  All ductwork leaks, so you’ve got a 140-degree attic with a big run of ductwork running down throughout the house, you’re losing energy in that attic all the time.”

Features like ductless air conditioning, when coupled with special filtration measures that Mitsubishi Electric builds into its systems, mean fewer pollutants that can impact family health, said director of applications support Meredith Emmerich.

“”If you think about it, about 25 percent of Americans struggle with allergies or have asthma. 90 percent of us spend 90 percent of our time indoors, not outside, and the pollutants inside are so much worse,” Emmerich said. “All of those things that can make your life a little uncomfortable – cause the sneezing, the wheezing – we can make sure we help protect your family against those things.”

That same family will be able to enjoy custom climate control – zoning, as Mitsubishi Electric calls it – in individual rooms thanks to compressors using INVERTER technology – the same technology that allows the systems to use only the amount of energy that is needed to heat or cool areas of the home.

Innovative technology from Mitsubishi Electric has helped the company become a primary source of heating and cooling solutions in Europe, Japan and China. Those same advantages are also available to take the load off of U.S. consumers worried about energy bills, environmental impact and a child’s health.

“When you stand on a rooftop in Tokyo and you look down and you see thousands of these units below you, you realize this isn’t a fad,” said Mitsubishi Electric senior vice president and general manager Bill Rau. “This isn’t something that’s an accident. This stuff works.”

For more information on Mitsubishi Electric and features like ductless air conditioning, go to www.mitsubishicomfort.com.