Sentences with phrase «heat pumps»

In a fridge, you extract heat from the air inside and make the interior cool, while the pipes at the back heat up: heat pumps take heat from air, the ground, or water and pump it into a building, thus warming it up.

Residential air conditioning accounts for around 5 % of the electricity consumed in the U.S. Residential air conditioning technologies include window air conditioners, central air conditioners, heat pumps, passive cooling, and alternatives to air...

Two main types of heat pumps are used in residential and commercial applications: air - source heat pumps (by far the most common) and ground - source (or geothermal) heat pumps.

The American Lung Association particularly supports the promotion of technologies that provide energy from non-combustion sources located onsite, such as rooftop solar and ground source heat pumps.

Heat pumps are vapor - compression refrigeration systems whose indoor / outdoor coils are used reversibly as condensers or evaporators, depending on the need for heating or cooling.

They recommend Vaillant air source heat pumps, having worked with for many years, installing high efficiency boilers and solar thermal systems.

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In the heating mode when the outside air approaches 32o F or less, air - source heat pumps loose efficiency and generally require a back - up (resistance) heating system.

Appliance efficiency standards: The National Appliance Energy Conservation Act of 1987 established minimum efficiency standards for major home appliances, including furnaces, central and room air conditioners, refrigerators, freezers, water heaters, dishwashers, and heat pumps.

Saves money on cooling because air - source heat pumps provide more efficient air conditioning than most other cooling systems.

Residential air conditioning accounts for around 5 % of the electricity consumed in the U.S. Residential air conditioning technologies include window air conditioners, central air conditioners, heat pumps, passive cooling, and alternatives to air conditioning (including fans).

These allow the integration of a range of options, including coupling with the electricity sector through heat pumps and power to heat, using the generation from variable renewable power sources at times of low demand to heat water for the district heating system.

When they're burning fuels, no matter how we «Green Wash» them, they're emitting carbon Once you have a «carbon free» electricity supply then using proven technology with either air source or ground source heat pumps is the only way to have «carbon free» space heating and domestic hot water.

South Carolina approved a tax incentive for any individual or business installing geothermal ground source heat pumps (GSHPs) and Virginia appears to be on their way to something...

Ductless heat pumps, also known as mini-splits, consist of two units: a slim outdoor condenser, an indoor air handler.

In addition, for the very largest home water heaters, the new efficiency standards will for the first time require advanced technologies (heat pumps for electrically - powered products and condensing technology for gas products), paving the way for even bigger future savings.

Other sustainable techs installed in the homes constructed by BaleHaus include rooftop mounted photovoltaic arrays, rainwater harvesting systems, and air - source heat pumps.

Geothermal electricity is not viable in New England with current technology (although geothermal heat pumps can help improve the efficiency of heating and cooling).

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So why not make it compulsory for new buildings have geothermal heat pumps installed before construction?

The Geothermal Clean Energy Challenge is helping expand ground - source heat pumps across New York's colleges and universities, K - 12 schools, State and local governments, and healthcare organizations.

Several weeks ago an international scientific study published new and harder evidence that one of the planet's key heat pumps, the currents which exchange warmth between the tropics and the Arctic, are weaker today than at any time in the last millennium.

As noted earlier in a post on another article, heat pumps extract heat from cooler regions and move them to warmer areas.

the supply approach attacks the problem with solar panels, heat pumps and tech; the demand approach is the Passivhaus

Given that it is made of concrete, has wind turbines, biomass heating, solar hot water, radiant in - floor heating and ground source heat pumps it looks like a bit of a stretch.

Hot rock geothermal (as opposed to ground loop heat pumps) is the killer app of energy.

With the new weatherization grants, the salesmen are out peddling ground source heat pumps to keep you cool for less, but really, free is better.

There were no big mechanical rooms filled fancy heat pumps; Passive House buildings are so well insulated that all they need is a teensy bit of electric resistance heat that will probably never get turned on.

In addition, some of us were eating less meat, bicycling for errands and to meetings, one had a rainwater collection system, a couple had organic gardens, two had completely retrofitted their houses with thick insulation, good windows, heat pumps, energy - sipping appliances, and supplied their own electricity with lots of rooftop solar panels.

Even here, heat pumps (air source or otherwise are coming along), but the equipment replacement cycle is a long one.

More recently hurricanes have been implicated as heat pumps responsible for up to 15 % of poleward oceanic heat transport.

Tight standards for new buildings, and a 30 - 40 year retrofit program for old buildings, which will combine insulation, switching to heat pumps, adding geothermal, etc. 3) Carbon neutral vehicles.

Heating can be done with heat pumps (electric powered) or direct resistance heating.

Instead of sealing everyone up and giving them ground source heat pumps and calling them green, we should insist that people's health comes first, and that there shouldn't be a house built in America that doesn't have an adequate supply of fresh air.

One of the least known but most effective ways to increase energy efficiency in our homes and businesses is utilizing an exciting new technology called geothermal heat pumps.

Ground source heat pumps, which were mentioned by Senator Inhofe, essentially use water circulated through pipes sunk into the ground to use the relatively stable temperature of the earth just below the surface to provide warmth in the winter and cooling in the summer.

While some of the systems carry high up - front costs (especially ground - source heat pumps) when a home is built is the best and most efficient time to include these design elements.

«$ 5,000 for every household in the US to retrofit and / or add solar and / or heat pumps and / or wind turbines in a community - based program using local materials...»

The Centre has all of the expected green gizmos, including enough photovoltaics to supply 30 % of the building's requirements, a wind turbine, ground source heat pumps and «exterior and interior solar control strategies specific to each façade in order to minimize solar heat gain in interior spaces and to offset cooling loads.

To be able to use ground source heat pumps you need to have a garden, and one big enough to ensure that a network of pipes can be buried into the ground.

Because geothermal heat pumps use electricty, they could virtually end the use of oil and gas in home heating, but as things now stand we're making little progress.

However, when used for domestic heating of water, the greenhouse gas footprint of natural gas is at least two - times larger than that of using modern electric - driven heat pumps.

«allows the system to reach fairly high efficiencies (300 % to 600 %) on the coldest winter nights, compared to 175 % to 250 % for air - source heat pumps on cool days.»

«Green technology» and carbon trading companies are everywhere here, selling heat pumps, solar, wind, and nuclear power gizmos, and describing the «offsets» they have to offer.

AKB (# 12), geothermal heat pumps are a wonderful technology but they require a large capital investment up front, and the system as it currently exists discourages their use.

Congress and the federal government have begun to realize that there are cost - effective technologies like geothermal heat pumps that can substantially enhance energy efficiency and thereby reduce the carbon footprint of our building stock.

* Increase tax credits or direct funding for improving home insulation (the current «weatherization» program) and replacement of oil burners with highly efficient electric technologies like geothermal heat pumps

Geothermal heat pumps are electrically - powered devices that use the earth's natural heat storage ability to heat and cool homes and meet energy demands.

It would be great if we could, but instead we're left with two alternatives, ground source heat pumps and geothermal installations.

Does he realize switching to geothermal heat pumps will also help reduce CO2 emissions?