Energy & Green Tech
Some homeowners looking to switch out their heating and cooling systems are turning to home geothermal—also known as ground source—heat pumps. It's a technology that relies on a simple physical fact: Dig several feet ...
Jul 13, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
As Germany looks to a future without fossil fuels, a big white boxy appliance is generating a lively debate—and often a heated one—for its potential to replace emissions-heavy oil and gas boilers.
Jul 7, 2023
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Business
The UK's housing stock is old, energy inefficient and heavily reliant on fossil fuel heating systems—mainly gas boilers. With heating responsible for 17% of the UK's carbon emissions, homes and their central heating must ...
Jul 3, 2023
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Business
People who work from home and heat more than one room will prompt significantly higher carbon emissions than those who work in an office, new research from the University of Sussex Business School has found. The researchers ...
Jun 26, 2023
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Consumer & Gadgets
If every Australian household that uses gas went all-electric today, we would "save" more than 30 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions over the next ten years. That's because there are more than 5 million households on ...
Jun 19, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
When Maike Biert was choosing a new heating system for her house in western Germany, she balked at the huge cost of installing a heat pump, instead opting for a gas boiler.
Jun 16, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Australia's energy transition is well under way. Some 3 million households have rooftop solar and sales of medium-sized electric cars are surging. But as we work towards fully electric households powered by renewable energy, ...
Jun 5, 2023
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Consumer & Gadgets
Heat pumps are an environmentally friendly way to save energy and money. Nearly 17 million heat pumps were installed in Europe by the end of 2021 because of the growing demand for energy-efficient technologies and the increasing ...
May 8, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
New Zealand burns the equivalent of 108 liters of petrol every second in coal and natural gas to generate heat for industrial processes. This burning of fossil fuels for industrial heat generates 28% of New Zealand's energy-related ...
May 3, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Hydrogen is an energy-rich gas, which releases no carbon emissions when burned. It can be used in most equipment where fossil fuels such as natural gas (methane) or LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) are currently used. In your ...
Apr 27, 2023
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