Andrew Blok covered home energy, with a focus on solar, and navigated the changing energy landscape to help people make smart energy decisions. He's a graduate of the Knight Center for Environmental ...

Mike Brewer no longer has any fuel running to his house in the Cambridgeshire village of Swaffham Prior. He cut the pipe in December. No gas, no oil yet his radiators are toasty. The heat is piped ...

Panasonic has developed a revolutionary hot water pipe that can actually turn the heat into usable electricity, as long as there’s also a source of cold water. The conversion process relies on the ...

The pipes that snake out from a hot-water or steam boiler and from a water heater radiate heat much like a conventional radiator or baseboard. You might welcome that heat if you spend a lot of time in ...

Last month I wrote about early steam heating and how experimentation led to discovery, which led to new products or piping techniques. This time I will be writing about the early days of gravity hot ...