The world’s largest geothermally heated hotel, which happens to be connected to the world’s largest mineral hot springs pool, is in the middle of a major upgrade to its 30-year-old heating system.

Geraldine has over a decade of experience writing within the home improvement sector. Additionally, she has unique first-hand renovation experience as the previous owner of a house-flipping business.

To achieve peak efficiency and prevent corrosion, steam and hot water boilers in hydronic heating systems require regular maintenance. Neglecting this can lead to increased service calls and a ...

Scientists in the United States has developed a new photovoltaic-thermal system design that utilizes parallel water pipes as a cooling system to reduce the operating temperature of photovoltaic panels ...

Last month I wrote about early steam heating and how experimentation led to discovery, which led to new products or piping techniques. This time I will be writing about the early days of gravity hot ...

UC Davis is wringing energy — and hundreds of thousands of dollars in savings — from a former waste product: the water vapor often seen as a fluffy white plume ­coming out of the campus steam plant.

WE BEGAN last month’s column (pg.32) exploring missed opportunities for heating domestic hot water. This month let’s look into the different types and styles. The sizing of “side-arm” DHW units, as ...

The decision to convert from steam to hot-water heat was an easy one for Steve LaFlamme, president and CEO of Oneida Real Estate Services. In all, LaFlamme has chosen to replace steam with hot-water ...

When Terry McIlveen built his home in Maine in 1997, he made the unusual choice to install radiant floor heating. “People thought I was nuts,” he says. However, since that time, radiant floor heat has ...