After reviewing basic design options, the next steps for potential geothermal designers are to challenge the common concerns and myths, study how different choices have different cost impacts, and be ...

Steve Smith has had a rough few years. The Greenville, Illinois, resident has been in business for himself since 1996, installing heating and cooling systems. Ten years later, he bought a manufacturer ...

Heat pumps have been around since the 1850s, but it's only recently that they’ve started attracting so much buzz. Instead of combusting fossil fuels or using resistance to make heat, electric heat ...

Geothermal systems take advantage of the earth’s temperature to heat your water, warm your home in winter and cool it off in the summer. The energy-saving and sustainability benefits of geothermal ...

Geothermal energy is typically found near geysers or volcanoes. But neither of those natural phenomena exist in the southwest ...

Outside the small town of Pierce, Colorado, a group of old wells were shut down six years ago when they stopped producing oil. But a startup now wants to repurpose the wells for a geothermal energy ...

With all respect to Carole King and James Taylor, maybe their song lyrics should have been “I feel the Earth heat under my feet.” It rhymes nicely, plus there is an enormous source of energy right ...

A new article uses machine learning for the first time to craft an improved model for understanding geothermal heat flux -- heat emanating from the Earth's interior -- below the Greenland Ice Sheet. A ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Drillers with Whittenberg Construction drilled one of 160 geothermal boreholes at the University of Louisville's $90 million ...

A US government report looked at the cost savings and grid effects of the mass installation of heat pumps. The result: lower energy bills. Jon covers artificial intelligence. He previously led CNET's ...

International events may have energy prices soaring, but Utah may have a homegrown solution to power generation. The Beehive ...

Located in Cornwall, the plant took nearly 20 years to build, and required engineers to drill three miles into the ground - the deepest well ever excavated in the UK. Find out more here.