Startup GMZ Energy raises $14 million to make materials that convert heat to electricity, including a solar hot thermal product and chips to draw electricity from car exhaust pipes. Martin LaMonica is ...

David Kuchta, Ph.D. has 10 years of experience in gardening and has read widely in environmental history and the energy transition. An environmental activist since the 1970s, he is also a historian, ...

A newly developed aerogel made mostly of air surrounding a silica structure is so transparent you can barely see it. But it could hold the key to unlocking new applications for solar heating. It traps ...

Jeff Somers is a freelancer who has been writing about writing, books, personal finance, and home maintenance since 2012. When not writing, Jeff spends his free time fixing up his old house. He has ...

Researchers in Canada designed an air-source heat pump integrated with an air-based solar collector and radiant floor heating ...

Industrial energy research stands at the threshold of a crucial transition. Combining advanced solar conversion with waste-heat valorization is emerging as ...

A group of researchers in Iran has analyzed the coefficient of performance and the energy consumption of a solar-assisted heat pumps and an air-source heat pumps and has found that three factors are ...