Minisplit
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Making Sense of Minisplits
Find out if this type of energy-efficient electric heating and cooling system is right for your home
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Hedging Bets on a Heating and Cooling System
Does it make sense to Install both a hydronic heat system and a heat pump for AC?
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Ducted Air-Source Heat Pumps from American Manufacturers
Are there any cold-climate heat pumps that can be connected to regular forced-air ductwork?
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Getting Into the Details
The house is dried in and mechanical work is starting
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Tweaking Plans for a Minisplit System
With heating and cooling load calculations in hand, a homeowner tries to fine-tune specs for a minisplit system
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Should We Promote Heat Pumps to Save Energy?
Replacing electric resistance heat with heat pumps could trim the nation's consumption of electricity by 2% — but in very cold states, gas furnaces still use less energy
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The Carbon Footprint of Minisplits
Is heating with a minisplit heat pump really ‘greener’ than heating with fossil fuels?
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Heat Losses Are Way More than Planned
An owner/builder in Ontario feels deflated after heat-loss calculations come in much worse than he expected — but numbers are not always what they seem
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Stop Using Propane and Oil and Go Electric
With heat pumps, going electric is a much better alternative than it used to be
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New Englanders Love Heat Pumps
At NESEA's Building Energy conference, air-source heat pumps were all the rage
