They’re just begging for heat pumps.Photo: Ethan Miller (Getty Images) [Extremely Bernie Sanders voice] I am once again asking you to consider the heat pump. The poorly named, wonderfully designed means of heating and cooling buildings is having a bit of a moment. And a new report adds to the […]
Thinking of Buying an Air Conditioner? Consider a Heat Pump.
Do you, like so many, live somewhere being wracked by unusual heatwaves? Are you facing the summer heat without air conditioning (AC)? Or maybe your AC went belly up this year at the worst possible time, and now you need a replacement. With this year’s extreme heat leaving a worrisome […]
HVAC repair workers take pride in helping Nevadans beat the heat in summer
Steve Marcus Nikki Kahalehili, a service technician with Goettl Air Conditioning and Plumbing, works on an air conditioner on the roof of a two-story home during a service call Thursday Aug. 5, 2021. By Ricardo Torres-Cortez (contact) Monday, Aug. 16, 2021 | 2 a.m. Nikki Kahalehili’s outstretched, tattooed arm gripped the […]
Why Heat Pumps Are The Answer To Heat Waves
Article courtesy of RMI.By Lacey Tan & Mohammad Hassan Fathollahzadeh As a record-breaking heat wave scorched the Pacific Northwest earlier this summer and again this week, killing hundreds of people in the United States and Canada, many residents realized the predictably mild summers they knew no longer exist. Scientists are clear that climate change will make these extreme […]
Pamplin Media Group – What are Oregon tenants’ rights during excessive heat?
Your landlord doesn’t have to provide you with AC, but you can make an argument to get one anyway (at your expense). As the Portland area braces for another heat wave, residents without air conditioning or other effective cooling methods in their homes could be in danger. At least 96 […]
Regulators refuse to step in as workers languish in extreme heat
Before the Biden administration can respond to the latest petition, it needs more information. “We have a lot of work to do,” McCarthy said. Air-conditioning access is just one area of focus, she noted. Places where people rarely needed to be cooled off in the summer, now do. But there’s […]
How Does Your Air Conditioner Hold Up During a Heat Wave?
Photo by Athena from Pexels If you own an air conditioner, consider yourself lucky, but you’re not out of the woods. Right off of the tail end of COVID, we get hit with record-breaking heatwave temperatures across the country. (What else could go wrong?) But if you own an air […]
Ductless Heat Pumps Demystified | CleanTechnica
Climate change has the odd effect of making many of us inordinately excited about appliances we never used to care about. Suddenly, all the background machines, which have up to now been unconsciously powering our lives, have taken on outsized importance. Some of them have the potential to provide the […]
Suffering the Heat of Climate Change, Cities Seek Retribution
Baltimore is suing major oil and gas companies for spurring the climate crisis and the rising temperatures that have an outsized impact on low-income, urban areas. Jul 22, 2021 For years, an elderly man stood as a regular fixture around his East Baltimore neighborhood for the way he would wander […]
Tips to lower your energy bill in the Arizona heat
Does your summer electric bill make you groan? Are you looking for effective ways to reduce your bill? Any Arizonan could tell you that their electric bill skyrockets as the state’s temperature does the same each summer. Most consumers struggle to avoid the high energy cost during the state’s hottest […]