It looks a little like a sleek window AC, but a new device from Chinese appliance giant Midea is actually a reversible heat pump that can both cool and heat a home—and it’s designed to heat ...

Electric HVAC systems can help you keep your home comfortable using a fraction of the energy. We spoke to experts to find out just how efficient they are. Mike De Socio is a CNET contributor who ...

A heat pump that can be installed in minutes is allowing the city of Boston to quickly decarbonize a public housing complex for the elderly and provide air conditioning as climate change-driven heat ...

Heat pumps date back to the 1850s and are more energy efficient than furnaces or boilers. Image: Schon via Getty Images. Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 ...

A heat pump functions as a typical air conditioning system in the cooling mode — absorbing heat from indoors and rejecting it outdoors. In heating mode, the coils reverse their functions. The outdoor ...

For several years now, heat pumps have outsold gas furnaces in the United States. Instead of burning fossil fuels to generate warmth, these appliances use electricity — ideally provided by renewable ...

Oregonians looking to install a heat pump can now apply to receive up to $2,000 in rebates through a new state incentive program. That means people who qualify may be able to cut the price of a home ...

THANKFULLY, NO ONE WAS SERIOUSLY HURT. ALL RIGHT. SO FOR MONTHS NOW, I’VE SHOWN YOU HOW GAS, HEATING BILLS EXPLODED THIS WINTER, THANKS MOSTLY TO SKY HIGH DELIVERY FEES. A BIG PART OF THOSE DELIVERY ...

Japanese industrial conglomerate Fujitsu has unveiled a residential split-type heat pump system that is claimed to be an ideal replacement for packaged terminal air conditioners (PTACs). “The Fujitsu ...