“Reindustrialization of the American heartland” In my conversation with Justin Briggs, a cofounder and chief operating officer at Antora, he brought up his vision for the...
The technology behind Antora’s thermal storage is surprisingly simple. Its modular battery system resembles a steel shipping container, filled with blocks of solid carbon—imagine a three-foot-tall,...
A holistic approach: Gilbert works in the county’s Office of Resilience, which has people designated to work on sea-level rise, carbon mitigation, and waste reduction. “Together,”...
Heata’s process is simple yet introduces a radical shift toward sustainable management of data centers: instead of being cooled with fans, which is expensive and energy...
Wet-bulb temperature is a weird metric, but basically, it’s an effort to incorporate both heat and humidity into one number. In short, it’s the measure of...
To keep our bodies at their relatively stable core temperature of around 98.6 °F (37 °C), we constantly lose heat. It’s a process that can be...
Heat pumps don’t appear to follow that trend, according to the data from a 2020 survey on US household energy use, which was released in March...
The news: Heat pumps, which use electricity to both heat and cool homes, are now just as common in low-income households in the US as they...
The US government is pushing for many more electric vehicles to hit the roads in the next few years. The problem is, the country doesn’t have...
While I can’t change the weather (not yet, anyway), it’s wild to think about just how much control many of us have over the temperature in...