Heating up water in residential and commercial homes produces a lot of greenhouse gasses. A new study from researchers in Australia suggests that electric water heaters could not only lower that ...

A new study in Periodica Polytechnica Mechanical Engineering explores how domestic electric water heaters can be used as thermal energy storage units when paired with photovoltaic (PV) systems. This ...

The systems, which can store clean energy as heat, were chosen by readers as the 11th Breakthrough Technology of 2024. We need heat to make everything from steel bars to ketchup packets. Today, a ...