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A research engineer at Pella Windows finally offers some adult supervision for our benchtop tape tests.
The pending closure of Vermont’s only nuclear plant will hurt the local economy, but it could catalyze sustainable economic development
A new generation of CO2-based heat pumps could avoid the high global warming potential of standard refrigerants and generate much higher temperatures
Editor’s note: We updated this 2013 blog post on April 15, 2024, to reflect more recent advancements in CO2-based heat-pump water heaters. To learn more about another such product, see the April 2024 article by Brent Ehrlich “On-demand Water Heat Goes All Electric with Heat Pumps, CO₂.”
Paying attention to the various layers in a building envelope is critically important for ensuring air tightness and moisture management—and can be attractive, too.
A new inverter from SMA allows us to draw some daytime power from our PV system when the grid is down, even without batteries
New smart vapor retarders block most vapor diffusion when you want to eliminate risk of condensation, but allow vapor flow when you want drying potential
Spray-applied fiberglass insulation offers huge benefits over fiberglass batts and even has some advantages over cellulose
We’ve just completed the installation of a relatively new and (at least in New England) little-known insulation material called Spider.
If buildings lose power or heating fuel, how hot is too hot and how cold is too cold?
The latest version of Green Globes for New Construction focuses on novel ways to measure energy performance, but details are hard to come by.
There seems to be a lot to like about the new Green Globes for New Construction, which was apparently launched earlier this week.
