Three years ago, Ted Treadwell turned his water heater into a battery. His home in Santa Rosa, California, had relied on a ...

The logic goes something like ... a fraction of the device’s total heat output. Most of the thermal work is actually done by a traditional 1000 watt heater built inside the 46 cm (18 inch ...

The illustration below shows how a thermal battery charges with an electric resistance heater, then releases heat via hot gas or visible and infrared light. New research from Energy Innovation ...

Effective thermal rectifiers could have an impact on diverse applications ranging from heat engines to refrigeration, thermal regulation of buildings and thermal logic. However, experimental ...

“Our recommendation for residential customers interested in looking at solar thermal is adding more solar PV, and a heat pump water heater,” says Morehouse. The big exception is pool heatin ...

Nearly every home has a water heater, but people tend not to think ... fossil fuels High-tech electric water heaters can double as thermal batteries, storing excess production from wind and ...

The aptly named Air Conditioner Water Heater, or ACWH ... sees buildings as large solar thermal collectors, ripe for gathering heat. Although the unit can be installed anywhere, it was designed ...

“We have reinvented the traditional heat pump water heater to combine the best of tankless water heaters, thermal energy storage, and grid connectivity. Our Electron series sets a new benchmark in ...