Canadians, especially those who heat their home by burning fossil fuels, are being encouraged to switch to electric heat pumps to cut greenhouse gas emissions. But what parts of Canada and what ...

A New Hampshire company will use a federal grant to bring space-worthy compressor technology down to Earth to better heat and cool people’s homes. The $1.7 million grant from the U.S. Department of ...

Six Fraunhofer institutes are developing new electrocaloric heat pumps that use elastocaloric heat pipes instead of compressors to extract heat from the sources. The first pilot systems developed by ...

Electronically commutated motor (ECM) pumps, fans, and a scroll compressor work together to enable the Veritus HPWH to operate with a high coefficient of performance (COP), optimize heat transfer, and ...

The highly efficient devices are the darlings of the environmental movement. Here’s why. By Hilary Howard Heat pumps, which both warm and cool buildings and are powered by electricity, have been ...

What's the difference between warm air and cool air? In fact, what does “temperature” even mean? It's stranger than you think. At a basic level, if you increase the temperature of air, you increase ...

Heat pumps are being sold to consumers as a way of cutting carbon emissions from homes - but are they suitable for older or ...

The humble heat pump is a fairly simple concept. And for the Bailey family, it was a fairly simple decision — all part of downsizing and reducing their environmental footprint after their kids moved ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — With temperatures plummeting in the last few weeks, people have once again been thinking about how to keep the air in their homes nice and comfortable. In homes around northwest Ohio, ...