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This adaptive roof tile can cut both heating and cooling costs

TechXplore

About half of an average American building's energy consumption is spent on heating and cooling. That's a lot of money spent, fossil fuel burned and strain on an aging energy infrastructure during times of severe temperatures.

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How can geothermal heat pumps use warmth from underground to cool a home?

Hydrogen Fuel News

If these pumps use underground warmth, how can it be used for cooling a building in the summer? The popularity is further driven by decarbonization The technology from geothermal heat pumps makes it possible to replace appliances that are powered by fossil fuel, keeping a home or business comfortable in both the summer and the winter.

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An Upstate New York studio heated and cooled without fossil fuels

Inhabitat - Innovation

With retirement and grandchildren on the horizon, a Manhattanite couple reached out to GRT Architects to design their new home in upstate New York's Dutchess County.

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How to get people to kick fossil fuels out of their homes

Canary Media

To cool the planet, homes will need clean energy makeovers. That entails households making the switch from fossil-fueled cars and appliances to electric vehicles, heat-pump AC/heaters , heat-pump water heaters and electric stoves , with some even opting for their own clean energy sources — solar panels and…

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Kwasi Kwarteng says biomass wood imports are “not sustainable”

Envirotec Magazine

Cooling towers at Drax, North Yorkshire (image credit: Shutterstock.com / Phil Silverman). Like fossil fuels, burning biomass also requires huge amounts of water to be abstracted for cooling, increasing water stress at times of drought. It makes climate change worse, not better. That’s the same as 4.5

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Electrification gets down to the wire

GreenBiz

The push to quickly transition carbon-intensive activities away from fossil fuels while meeting the world’s growing energy needs has put electricity producers and consumers squarely in the forefront of the emerging clean economy. And the era of fossil fuels is hardly over. Subscribe here.

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Liquid air: A cool option for energy storage?

Envirotec Magazine

Liquid Air Energy Storage (LAES) uses electricity to cool air until it liquefies, so it can be stored until an opportune moment arrives when it can be brought back to a gaseous state and used for power generation. This is achieved by compressing the air to form a high-pressure gas, the air is then cooled by heat exchange with a cold fluid.

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