Heat from the earthRedwood Falls Gazette - Redwood Falls,MN,USAAdded to an already built home an replacing an existing HVAC unit, an efficient geothermal system saves enough on utility bills that the investment can be
Serious Materials' Super-Insulating SeriousWindows Selected As MarketWatch - USASeriousWindows(TM) super-insulating, full-frame R-5 to R-11 windows exceed Energy Star(R) requirements by up to four times and can reduce heating and
Rekindling Wood Energy in AmericaRenewableEnergyWorld.com - Peterborough,NH,USAWe call this Franklin's Energy Principle, after Ben Franklin who in the 1740s improved the efficiency of the wood stove to both benefit household comfort
This unique red home is all about going greenOrillia Packet & Times - Orillia,Ontario,CanadaIn the winter, the couple use their replica 1930s wood stove, which heats 100 gallons of water in an hour. At 100 degrees Celsius, the stove can maintain
Keeping your cool this summer!Examiner.com - USATurn off heating and cooling registers in unused rooms. Closing the supply registers in unoccupied rooms and closing the doors into the rooms will push more
Energy Insider: Geothermal Heating & CoolingKFYR-TV - Bismarck,ND,USAThe use of a geothermal system is one way businesses are driving their energy bills down. "The wells that are drilled have a pipe that goes all the way down
Zetland Homes LLC Demonstration Green Home Wins National Dream PR.com (press release) - Levittown,NY,USAHeating, domestic hot water, and air conditioning are provided by a standing column geothermal system which is also designed to keep the installed cost low.
East End business swims in the green end of the poolLong Island Business News - Ronkonkoma,NY,USAEast Hampton is a small town, and when people hear I'm doing solar, they just assume it's heating systems for pools. But it's much more than that.
Blue Is the New Green: Four Ways to Make Your Pool More Eco PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USAInterested in solar heating, especially with utility rates spiking? When natural gas had a unit price of $0.55 per thermal unit (therm), proposing solar was
A Woods Hole home, guided by greenBoston Globe - United StatesGoldman also harnessed the ample southern exposure to create passive solar heating, a system integrated into building's elements; the windows, walls,
Harnessing underground energyStillwater NewsPress - Stillwater,Oklahoma,USAAn underground revolution in alternative energy is heating up the industry and it comes a 30 percent tax credit. According to OSU Professor and Director
HOUSING: 'Green' home to meld environmentalism, comfortNorth County Times - Californian - Escondido,CA,USAA geothermal system will provide temperature control. Electricity will be supplied through solar panels and perhaps through wind turbines, if feasible.
This home is so environmentally friendly, the building itself Kalamazoo Gazette - MLive.com - Kalamazoo,MI,USATheir home is heated and cooled with a geothermal system. Most of their hot water comes from a panel of solar-thermal evacuated tubes in front of the home.
Water source pump uses Thames to heat docksideNew Energy Focus - London,England,UK"This water pump shows there is a cheaper green alternative form of heating. And the great thing is heat pumps can work by extracting heat from the ground
Going green, staying coolVineland Daily Journal - Vineland,NJ,USA"By changing my old heating and air conditioning unit to a geothermal system, the cost up front will be offset by the money I'll save over the life of the
Area Firm Looks Past Fossil FuelLitchfield County Times - New Milford,CT,USA... with an office in Poughkeepsie, NY, provide alternative options to the heating and cooling of a home through geothermal heating and weatherization.
Wood-burning stoves: fire up home heatingTelegraph.co.uk - United KingdomHeating the home, and also cooking, with wood is becoming an increasingly popular alternative to gas and electricity, and this winter and spring,
Chilled beams hit the roofMedia Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USAAnd instead of heating air with hot water, they cool it with cold water. The potential energy reduction of using chilled beams instead of a traditional
Fanquip's electric heater a safer temperature control alternativeFactory Maintenance - Sydney,AustraliaAccording to Fanquip, its electrical heating systems can be safely operated in flammable and noxious-free areas. In industrial applications such as robotic
Use solar power to heat pool waterStaten Island Advance - SILive.com - Staten Island,NY,USABasically, a solar heating sysem is a long loop of 2-inch black PVC tubing that is bypassed into your pool's water pump hose. The project does not require
A Regency home gets an eco makeoverguardian.co.uk - UKGround-source heat pumps are an alternative source of heating that saves on energy usage from the grid, but they require extensive trenching in the garden.
Next Habitat home will be greenBelleville Intelligencer - Belleville,Ontario,CanadaThe home will include composite or steel roofing, extended overhangs for passive solar heating, rain water harvesting, domestic solar hot water,
Ultimate Green: using the Earth and sun to good advantageNewsoftheNorth.Net - Rhinelander,Wisconsin,USAThe geothermal system uses ground-coupled piping to circulate fluid from the building out to five 120-foot vertical bore holes, and back into the building.
