Mike De Socio is a CNET contributor who writes about energy, personal finance, electric vehicles and climate change. He's also the author of the nonfiction book, "Morally Straight: How the Fight for ...

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As HVAC solutions have grown rapidly over the last decade, contractors often struggle to keep up with the changing technology. Modern, all-electric, clean-energy innovations like variable refrigerant ...

Rebecca Brill is a writer whose essays have appeared in The Paris Review Daily, VICE, Literary Hub, and elsewhere. She runs the Susan Sontag's Diary and the Sylvia Plath's Food Diary accounts on ...

If you want to heat or cool your home, a heat pump seems like the logical solution. Here's everything you need to know to decide whether getting one makes sense for your home. Andrew King is an ...

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, ...

Households with specific models of heat-pump tumble dryers have been told to stop using their appliances due to fire safety ...

Hundreds of Times readers wrote to us and shared their experiences of installing heat pumps, including the good, the bad and the daunting. By Christopher Flavelle Last month, I shared my story of ...