CLIFFORD, N.D. — In 1991, Nancy Drew and her husband Jim Erickson installed a ground source heat pump on the family farm while completely remodeling the house. "It was just a smarter system than fuel ...

A heat pump doesn't generate heat; it transfers it from one place to another. It's an appliance with a bright future in an ...

Around 36,000 schools in the U.S. are in need of updated heating and cooling systems, according to the Government Accountability Office. Many students are trying to learn in environments that are too ...

The old heating system in the Concord Quaker meetinghouse was a small furnace that burned commercial-grade wood pellets. The big tank held pellets, delivered by truck. The new ground-source geothermal ...

We’ve experienced a spate of heatwaves recently and while you may be basking in the warmer summer months right now, it’s never too soon to start thinking about what happens when the temperature starts ...

Scientists from China have developed a novel optimization method for medium-depth ground source heat pumps, using an improved chaos particle swarm optimization. They coupled it with either a heat ...

Millions of U.S. households would benefit from heat pumps, but the cost of installing the technology needs to come down to make their use a more attractive proposition. Millions of U.S. households ...

Federal incentives for heat pump installations expire this year. Homeowners can choose between air-source and ground-source systems. Heat pumps cut energy use and emissions more efficiently than ...

Researchers in Sweden sought to raise the efficiency of ground source heat pumps by combining their operation with that of PVT systems and free cooling. Through a series of simulations, they found ...

When Jack Schniepp’s furnace began to fail this winter in his two-story Bend home, he and his wife decided they’d tear it out and replace it with a heat pump. “We wanted to do it for climate-related ...