Heat Pumps & Efficiency

21+ hour, 18+ min ago   (315+ words) Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (Fraunhofer ISE) is developing software designed to help heat pump installers streamline deployment while reducing their workload. The Heat Pump PlanAR app prototype, described as “manufacturer-neutral,” reportedly allows heating, ventilation, air conditioning and…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (372+ words) A team of researchers from Thailand and China has engineered a new family of photocatalytic films that destroy stubborn dye pollutants under ordinary visible light, and the design is turning heads for how many tricks it packs into a single…...

1+ day, 14+ hour ago   (323+ words) ROANOKE RAPIDS — The Center for Energy Education will welcome the community to Light the Night from 5 to 9 p.m. Sept. 30 at its 460 Airport Road campus. The event will feature C4EE’s Clean Power Avenue of Flags and is free and open to…...

1+ day, 14+ hour ago   (307+ words) “The scope of the study extends beyond considering the interdependencies between retrofit measures over time resulting from different bundling and sequencing strategies,” corresponding author Tim Schaffitzel told pv magazine. “The framework also considers how the operating pattern of the hybrid…...

2+ day, 21+ hour ago   (880+ words) As Climate Week gets underway, New York has plenty of clean energy progress to celebrate – and plenty of work still ahead. From offshore wind and solar to energy storage, projects across the state are already generating clean power, creating jobs,…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (367+ words) As at December 31, the country had a total of 1.8 million residential buildings and 4.88 million dwellings, according to the FSO. More than one million of these buildings were detached houses, and 55% of them were occupied by just one or two people....

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (342+ words) Volkswagen is once again demonstrating its engineering prowess with the new Mission Efficiency concept car. This teardrop-shaped vehicle is a direct competitor to the Tesla Cybercab, outperforming it across several key efficiency and aerodynamic metrics. Mission Efficiency is an ambitious…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (597+ words) "These are the kinds of practical improvements we want to continue making across Everett." The city of Everett, north of Boston, recently finished an energy project at the Ferry Street Fire Station, replacing deteriorating heating equipment with a high-efficiency heat…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (465+ words) Fewer than half of people asked knew anything about heat pumps despite the electric heating systems forming a key part of national climate action plans, the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) has found. The bar for knowledge was low,…...

2+ week, 1+ hour ago   (523+ words) LattePanda has expanded its x86 compute module lineup with the Mu Ultra, a compact device based on Intel Core Ultra 200V “Lunar Lake” processors. The module is offered with Core Ultra 5 226V and Core Ultra 7 256V options, up to 115 TOPS of combined INT8 AI performance,…...