Federal incentives and state regulations weigh heavily in favor of heat pumps these days, but a heat pump may not be the best ...

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 ...

A heat pump heats and cools your home, functioning like a combined furnace and central air conditioner. Because they absorb and move heat from the air, heat pumps are exceptionally energy-efficient ...

It looks a little like a sleek window AC, but a new device from Chinese appliance giant Midea is actually a reversible heat ...

Rebecca Brill is a writer whose essays have appeared in The Paris Review Daily, VICE, Literary Hub, and elsewhere. She runs the Susan Sontag's Diary and the Sylvia Plath's Food Diary accounts on ...

Lee Wallender is a home improvement writer of nearly 20 years and specializes in home remodeling, repair and maintenance. Sami Allen is the managing editor at Forbes Home, with over seven years of ...

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 ...

As we're forced to be increasingly conscious of the power we're using thanks to heavy energy costs and grid strain, we want an efficient and effective way to heat our homes. Keeping thermostats at the ...

Oct. 1—Heat pumps are useful for keeping warm in Maine. But they can't replace a home's central heating system on the coldest winter days, especially in an old house. That was what Kathy Heseltine ...

Colin and Sue Ferguson’s near-Passivhaus standard home fell from an A to a C rating - Stuart Nicol Colin Ferguson’s home may well be the ultimate net zero property – at least in theory. The detached ...

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