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Musings of an Energy Nerd

Attaching Ducts to a Heat-Pump Water Heater

An increasing percentage of green builders are choosing to install heat-pump water heaters -- appliances that use an air-source heat pump to extract heat from the air, transferring that heat…

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Mike Rogers Dies

Energy efficiency advocate Mike Rogers died on December 18, 2018. Rogers was best known for his work establishing the Home Performance With Energy Star program. I first met Rogers in…

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Pete’s Puzzle: Not Your Run-of-the-Mill Moisture Problem

Taking a look at only the first three images in the photo gallery for this blog, can you guess what the contraption is (was) in the middle of the basement…

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Two Startups Seek to Grow Interest in Foam Glass Fill

Two companies in the Northeast are seeking to expand the market for a lightweight, insulating fill made from recycled glass that can take the place of stone aggregate in several…

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Creating a World-Class Recycling System

This post originally appeared at Ensia. In a large open space overlooking central Taipei, Arthur Huang hands me a translucent, honeycomb-shaped polyethylene panel. Named Polli-Brick, this colorless module made from…

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