Heat pumps function similarly to refrigerators or air conditioners, which take warm air from one space and send it to another. In the winter, a heat pump transfers heat from the outdoors inside and, ...

A New Hampshire company will use a federal grant to bring space-worthy compressor technology down to Earth to better heat and cool people’s homes. The $1.7 million grant from the U.S. Department of ...

This article was originally featured in Knowable. It was an engineering problem that had bugged Zhibin Yu for years — but now he had the perfect chance to fix it. Stuck at home during the first UK ...

Heat pumps are growing in popularity, capable of both heating and cooling a home by moving heat rather than generating it.

Despite a dip in sales last year, heat pumps are continuing to take Europe by storm. These devices take energy from the air, ground or water and transform it into heat or cool air. But how, when and ...

A common refrain is that they’re only effective in mild climates. We put that idea to the test. Credit...Photo illustration by The New York Times; Shutterstock Supported by By Sofia Quaglia Heat pumps ...

Think heat pumps can only work in warmer climates? Think again, experts say. The electric heating and cooling systems have historically been more common in warmer areas because earlier models didn’t ...

Freiburg-based start-up Qurie GmbH, a spin-off from the Fraunhofer Institute for Physical Measurement Techniques IPM, is developing a solid-state heat pump that operates without conventional ...

Fraunhofer institutes developing electrocaloric solid-state heat pump without compressors Six Fraunhofer institutes are developing new electrocaloric heat pumps that use elastocaloric heat pipes ...

Oteck Carrier, an energy solutions company chaired by Kang Seonghee, is launching a home-integrated heat pump boiler ...