Air conditioning and refrigeration consume about 20% of global electricity, relying on century-old vapor-compression ...

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Colorado has had a number of days when temperatures dropped to negative 15 degrees Fahrenheit or colder in recent years, and ...

Researchers have developed a heat storage unit that takes up less space than a regular hot water tank. It charges when ...

Heat pumps work as a modern replacement for both your furnace and air conditioning unit. Here's the major reason that you may ...

Perseverance, NASA’s 2020 Mars rover, is powered by something very desirable here on Earth: a thermoelectric device that converts heat to useful electricity. On Mars, the heat source is the ...

Electricity prices have been climbing faster than inflation in many regions, raising questions about how contractors should present high-efficiency equipment to customers. For heat pumps, the ...

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Last year, when Shreyas Sudhakar started a heat pump installation company in the San Francisco Bay Area, he realized he wouldn’t be able to find new customers by promising to bring down their utility ...