Water Heating
Heating water consumes over 3.5 quadrillion Btus per year of primary energy which makes it the third largest energy end use for the residential and commercial sector in the United Sta...
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Firefighters and a volunteer armada navigated boats through streets awash in waist-deep water Wednesday, plucking neighbors and pets from porches as flooding that has swamped the Upper Midwest and ...
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Freiburg, Germany (dpa) - Intersolar, a trade fair for the
solar-energy industry, opened Thursday for the last time in the small
German city of Freiburg and is to be held ne...
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There have been some major wake-up calls in the fight against global warming, starting with the United Nations scolding the U.S. for not doing enough to mitigate its contributions to the proble...
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Dec. 6 (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives
Thursday passed a wide-ranging energy bill that included a
$21.5 billion package of tax incentives for renewable energy
sources like wind and ...
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South Africa will ration electricity, increase prices and encourage a switch to solar energy, all part of emergency measures now being undertaken amid power outages that have caused chaos and miser...
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Heating costs are rising again this year, but there are steps families can take to save money and still keep warm."The trend for the last seven years in the price of fuel has been upward," said Kat...
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Windhoek, Namibia (dpa) - Namibia has clean air, a lot of space
and only 2 million inhabitants, but it is taking climate change and
energy efficiency seriously with a power ...
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Rolf Disch has harnessed the sun in his city of Freiburg, starting with his own house.It looks like an upside-down Apollo spacecraft and serves as a testing ground for ideas dreamed up by the 63-ye...
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As I picked my way over hot rocks and bubbling mud in the pouring rain, I realized Dominica was not for the faint-hearted. I was hiking to the Boiling Lake, a bizarre cauldron of steaming-hot water...
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Stepping carefully down the cruise ship's gangway, I wait for a break in the swelling waves to make my move.
With a quick stride, I settle on to a small rubber boat. Within ...
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