Bob is a service technician who is well trained and nationally certified. However, he sometimes suffers from the same confusion that all technicians occasionally do - the facts that he gathers may or ...

Reliability has been a key issue for unitary heat pumps virtually since the first units were installed in the 1950s. Many of those reliability problems involved the capillary tube refrigerant metering ...

Type 'heat pumps' into an internet search engine and you'll get thousands of hits dedicated to weighing up the pros and cons of home energy heating systems. But many people don't know that there's ...

The highly efficient devices are the darlings of the environmental movement. Here’s why. By Hilary Howard Heat pumps, which both warm and cool buildings and are powered by electricity, have been ...

Solar panels and wind turbines get all the attention, but an underappreciated device is helping slash emissions in a big way: the heat pump. Instead of generating heat by burning natural gas, like a ...