When it comes to energy-efficient residential heating, heat pumps and condensing furnaces have grabbed most of the attention lately. But the benefits of hydronic radiant systems should not be ...

When Terry McIlveen built his home in Maine in 1997, he made the unusual choice to install radiant floor heating. “People thought I was nuts,” he says. However, since that time, radiant floor heat has ...

Nothing too complicated about this project—use solar radiation, a principle as old as the sun itself, to heat water. The trick is transferring the energy from one body of water (your solar hot water ...

It's a classic win-win situation for all involved, but there's a way to take the efficiency to the next level. Plumber breaks ...

France-based FHE Group has developed a 2.5 kWh storage device that can store electricity as heat during the day and release this heat at night to power a heat pump for space heating and hot water.

Conventional district heating systems are generally designed around the load. However, an alternate approach would be to design around potential heat sources, including the waste heat from power ...

Discover how a solar heat pump system in Australia maximises efficiency. Learn to slash bills and use thermal storage as a ...

Last month I wrote about early steam heating and how experimentation led to discovery, which led to new products or piping techniques. This time I will be writing about the early days of gravity hot ...

The decision to convert from steam to hot-water heat was an easy one for Steve LaFlamme, president and CEO of Oneida Real Estate Services. In all, LaFlamme has chosen to replace steam with hot-water ...