Tag: Heating - Page 5
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Swedish Town Recycles Heat from Cremations
Arts and Literature have given us Soylent Green and The Matrix, suggesting human bodies as raw material. Usually this makes people grimace and shiver. But in the Swedish town of Halmstad, it will soon make people warm and cozy.
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Heat Your Home With...IBM's Waste Heat?
If you’re going to be online and using data centers, you might as well use their waste heat to warm up the room in which you’re web surfing, right?
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Extreme Insulation: Who Needs It Most?
I thought I could delve into this topic like an engineer or architect, showing: heating degree-day isotherms, cooling degree-day isotherms, and mean annual temperature maps. But, alas, the graphics just don't work at blog-format. What else,
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Pollution to Rise Along With Energy Prices?
Environmentalists often cheer rising energy prices, hoping they will encourage conservation, boost support for higher efficiency standards, and make renewable sources more cost-effective. But hikes in the cost of natural gas may have Istanbul, and
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Less Is More: Hot Water Bottles
Often, really simple ideas work really well. The hot water bottle is a good example. They are back in style in Japan this winter, with promotion on the web and companies like Yutanpo Cuseberry offering attractive, colorful cotton covers with animal
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Work Saving Tip: The "Wood Chuck," By Carts Vermont
Zoe the black lab loves to follow me around when I go outside; but, she gets bored fast when I go for the firewood (pictured). And, who can blame her? As our readers pointed out in the recent post How Much Wood Would A Tree Hugger Burn, If A Tree
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USB-Heated Fingerless Gloves Keep the Thermostat Turned Down
If you’re having trouble keeping warm as the weather cools but are reluctant to heat the whole house just to keep your digits intact while working on the computer, try out these cool gloves that plug right in to your PC. You can
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Survey: Do You Use an Electric Heater?
Controversy du jour is whether an electric space heater has a place in a green home. It is a bit early in the season, but Eric reviewed 5 different space heaters and raised the temperature quite a bit.
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5 Great Portable Electric Space Heaters
Photo used courtesy of Vagawi The U.S. Department of Energy has established that in many cases using an electric space heater in one room is much more efficient that heating an entire home efficiently with a gas furnace (especially an older unit). With
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Wood Heat Rises Again
It is interesting how even though the price of natural gas is about half of what it was six months ago, my gas company doesn't seem to have noticed yet. Perhaps it is better to rely on one's own resources, as
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Wood Stoves From Rammed Earth
What a fabulous idea: wood stoves made from rammed earth.
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Thinking of Buying a Pellet Stove? We Can Help!
Modern Wood Burning Pellet Stoves With high energy prices and constant talks of economic recession, wood stoves are back in vogue in many parts of the world where wood can be had cheaply. But they have downsides, especially if we're talking about old
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Frugal Green Living: Save $1000 Using These 6 Tips
Going green is definitely better for you, and the planet, but it can occasionally mean a little green has to leave your wallet. Even if you'll make the money back in increased efficiency or energy savings, you have
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Trees for Grannies, a Thermoregulating Project by World of Warmth
Have you ever wondered what we look like in infrared? What the warmest part of a sheep is? Where your home leaks heat? What an infection looks like according to its heat? Dutch group World of Warmth has created a collection of infrared images (see
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The TH Interview: Ariella Maron—The Greening of New York City
Love it or hate it, New York's 8.25 million people are some of the greenest citizens walking among us. Whether they know it or not, New Yorkers have significantly lighter footprints than the vast majority of Americans, and Mayor Bloomberg is trying to
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Best Cooling Fans for a Good Night's Sleep
Good things come in threes. TreeHugger recently reviewed the Bedfan and SunFrost Sleep Genie. The Bedfan cools you under the sheets while you sleep. The Sleep Genie is sized to cool just your sleeping area by insulating around the bed ("Victorian bed
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Hot Summer Nights? Sleep Cool And Cut Electric Bills With a Bedfan
Home air conditioning accounts for about 5 percent of U.S. electricity usage. In the winter, snuggling under the comforter and turning the thermostat down is a time-honored tradition, but what about in the hot and sweaty mid-summer season?
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Climate Diet book - the Latest Dieting Fad?
While there are books aplenty today about going green, greening your lifestyle and green for dummies, The Climate Diet is the first to offer you greening solutions
