As global energy demand accelerates, one truth remains underappreciated: heat is the largest end use of energy. Today, more than 50 percent of global final energy consumption is dedicated to ...

The systems, which can store clean energy as heat, were chosen by readers as the 11th Breakthrough Technology of 2024. We need heat to make everything from steel bars to ketchup packets. Today, a ...

A group of European scientists has sought to combine PV-thermal (PVT) energy coupled with a heat pump (HP) and borehole thermal energy storage (BTES) for powering an Italian swine farm. “This research ...

These low-tech systems offer cheap, long-duration storage with minimal degradation, using abundant materials and basic ...

Scientists from China have developed a novel optimization method for medium-depth ground source heat pumps, using an improved chaos particle swarm optimization. They coupled it with either a heat ...

When spring arrives and the heating season comes to an end, keeping warm becomes less of an issue. However, scientists remind us that it is not just a seasonal necessity -- heat is also a valuable ...