Buildings in arctic and subarctic climates face not only challenges related to cold but also remoteness, limited utilities, permafrost, and extreme temperature shifts. Designers must meet these ...
Vernacular construction technologies are based on centuries of practical wisdom, refined through countless trials and errors. This process eliminates all irrelevant aspects, creating highly efficient ...
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Modeling shows geothermal and borehole thermal energy storage can reliably heat buildings in extreme cold
New energy storage research from NREL, a U.S. Department of Energy national laboratory, has demonstrated a way to store and reuse heat underground to meet the heating demands of cold regions like ...
Meredydd Evans is an Earth scientist at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in College Park, Maryland, and leads the International Energy Agency’s Building Energy Codes working group. Three ...
All eight manufacturers in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Residential Cold Climate Heat Pump Challenge completed rigorous product field testing to demonstrate energy efficiency and improved ...
The field-testing phase of the Residential Cold Climate Heat Pump Technology Challenge is over, and eight manufacturers that took part are in various stages of bringing new, Challenge-certified heat ...
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