News tagged with gas furnace

Going green: Entire Swedish city switches to biofuels to become environmentally friendly

Though a fraction of Chicago's size, this industrial city in southeast Sweden has plenty of similarities with it, including a long, snowy winter and a football team the town's crazy about.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 08, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (61) | comments 5

Energy efficiency standards for appliances should include upstream costs

The U.S. Department of Energy should consider gradually changing its system of setting appliance energy-efficiency standards to a full-fuel-cycle measurement, which takes into account both the energy used to operate an appliance, ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created May 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Home heating efficiencies offer 'hat trick' of savings: study

Improving the energy efficiency of Maryland homes heated by natural gas would generate a "hat trick" of economic and environmental benefits over the next 10 years, including more than 80,000 new jobs, savings of hundreds ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0