According to contractors, consumers have been deluged with marketing messages touting the benefits of single-room space heaters as a way to cost-effectively heat a space using electricity instead of gas, propane, or fuel oil as the heating source.
The Air Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration Institute (AHRI) has filed comments on the preliminary technical support document (TSD) that the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) released as part of its rulemaking process on minimum energy conservation standards for automatic commercial ice-makers.
The Air Conditioning Contractors of America’s (ACCA’s) Radiant & Hydronics Council (RHC) announced that Dan Holohan of HeatingHelp.com has joined the council’s advisory committee as a consultant.
The Building Performance Institute Inc. (BPI) has announced another new accreditation option for HVAC contracting companies. BPI said it will now accept the Refrigeration Service Engineers Society (RSES) certifications as prerequisite criteria for its accreditation program.
Solar research has focused on improving the performance of solar photovoltaic cells and bringing down their cost. But very little attention has been paid to the best ways of arranging those cells. Now, a team of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers has come up with a different approach.