Heat pumps used to struggle in the cold. Not anymore.
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Finland is building the world's largest heat pump – will provide enough heat for 30,000 homes, saving roughly 26,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions each year
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Sweden has cut 80% of its net emissions since 1990 – while growing its economy twofold. How have they done it?
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Google will send the waste heat from its data center in Hamina, Finland, to that community's district heating system
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Industrial-scale thermal storage unit in Pornainen, southern Finland, will be the world's biggest sand battery when it comes online within a couple of years
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State of emergency has been declared in Iceland after lava from a volcanic eruption damaged key hot water pipes
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The neglected clean heat we flush down the drains
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Russia’s fabled war ally ‘General Frost’ turns on Moscow
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Sweden's Aira, which offers subscription service at no upfront cost, has sights set on UK's growing heat pump market
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Norway brought heat pumps in from the cold – device installed in two-thirds of households suggests switching to greener heating can be done
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Norway is among the countries with the most heat pumps per capita, along with neighbouring Finland and Sweden
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The case for brick thermal storage
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Germany's MAN Energy Solutions installs world's largest seawater CO2 heat pump for district heating at the port of Esbjerg, Denmark
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Harnessing Iceland's geothermal energy for agriculture | Focus on Europe
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How Iceland became a geothermal powerhouse
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Malmö start-up Enjay believes its patented product is the first in the world to offer profitable energy recovery from polluted kitchen exhaust air
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Mälarenergi has embarked on a project to fill caverns underneath Västerås, Sweden with hot water – warmth will be sent via heat exchangers to a district heating network
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Insulation only provides short-term reduction in household gas consumption
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Helsinki is tapping an unexpected source of energy to heat its homes – cold water extracted from deep in the Baltic Sea
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A new way of storing renewable energy is providing clean heat – the Vatajankoski power plant is home to the world's first commercial-scale sand battery
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Energy crisis fuels rush for firewood sending prices skyrocketing
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Climate change: 'Sand battery' could solve green energy's big problem
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BlocPower wants to evict fossil fuels one building at a time... And replace them with greener alternatives
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Electrify everything is slow
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At Iceland's Blue Lagoon you can swim in power plant wastewater – here's a story about geothermal energy, cheap heat, and how to keep some ducks warm
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Rethinking space heating
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How Helsinki is using a big cash prize to find a sustainable solution to heating the city
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For the few who heat homes with coal, it's still king
6 votes