Subscribe

Would you like to subscribe to our newsletter?

Click here to Search All News s
Current Conditions Sunny  1.8°C

Lifestyle News

Search/Filter Results

  • Here's how geothermal energy heats and cools a home

    July 13, 2023 - 5:08 AM

    Some homeowners looking to switch out their heating and cooling systems are turning to home geothermal — also known as ground source — heat pumps. It's a technology that relies on a simple physical fact: Dig several feet below Earth's surface, in the coldest winter or the hottest summer, and the temperature will be around 55 degrees.

  • Little-known but efficient, a different way to heat and cool your house

    July 13, 2023 - 5:09 AM

    Summers are famously humid in New York State, but life in the Maioli household has gotten more comfortable since the couple installed a new heating and cooling system — one that isn't well known yet in the U.S.

  • CES 2023: Companies tout environmental tech innovations

    January 09, 2023 - 5:38 AM

    LAS VEGAS (AP) — The mottled bright green leaves of a pothos plant stood out against the flashy expanse of electric vehicles and smart products at the CES tech show in Las Vegas this year. This particular version of the familiar houseplant was bioengineered to remove 30 times the amount of indoor air pollutants of a typical house plant, according to Neoplants, the Paris-based company that created it.

  • Made green upgrades in 2021? Don’t miss these tax credits

    March 03, 2022 - 4:53 AM

    Many Americans have woven green practices into their everyday lives — from recycling to going paperless and even cutting back on meat consumption.

  • Lithium fuels hopes for revival on California's largest lake

    August 30, 2021 - 9:36 PM

    CALIPATRIA, Calif. (AP) — Near Southern California’s dying Salton Sea, a canopy next to a geothermal power plant covers large vats of salty water left behind after super-hot liquid is drilled from deep underground to run steam turbines. The vats connect to tubes that spit out what looks like dishwater, but it’s lithium, a critical component of rechargeable batteries and the newest hope for economic revival in the depressed region.

  • Lithium fuels hopes for revival on California's largest lake

    August 30, 2021 - 9:35 PM

    CALIPATRIA, Calif. (AP) — Near Southern California’s dying Salton Sea, a canopy next to a geothermal power plant covers large containers of salty water left behind after super-hot liquid is drilled from deep underground to run steam turbines. The containers connect to tubes that spit out what looks like dishwater, but it's lithium, a critical component of rechargeable batteries and the newest hope for economic revival in the depressed region.

  • Lithium fuels hopes for revival on California's largest lake

    August 30, 2021 - 4:10 PM

    CALIPATRIA, Calif. (AP) — Near Southern California’s dying Salton Sea, a canopy next to a geothermal power plant covers large vats of salty water left behind after super-hot liquid is drilled from deep underground to run steam turbines. The vats connect to tubes that spit out what looks like dishwater, but it’s lithium, a critical component of rechargeable batteries and the newest hope for economic revival in the depressed region.

  • Lithium fuels hopes for revival on California's largest lake

    August 30, 2021 - 4:05 PM

    CALIPATRIA, Calif. (AP) — Near Southern California’s dying Salton Sea, a canopy next to a geothermal power plant covers large containers of salty water left behind after super-hot liquid is drilled from deep underground to run steam turbines. The containers connect to tubes that spit out what looks like dishwater, but it's lithium, a critical component of rechargeable batteries and the newest hope for economic revival in the depressed region.

  • Boom in Native American oil complicates Biden climate push

    June 24, 2021 - 8:59 AM

    NEW TOWN, N.D. (AP) — On oil well pads carved from the wheat fields around Lake Sakakawea, hundreds of pump jacks slowly bob to extract 100 million barrels of crude annually from a reservation shared by three Native American tribes.

  • From Wales to Bulgaria, 21 finalists chosen in Bloomberg European city-innovation contest

    April 22, 2014 - 9:12 PM

    NEW YORK, N.Y. - Amsterdam wants to create an online game to get unemployed young people engaged in finding jobs across Europe. Schaerbeek, Belgium, envisions using geothermal mapping to give households personalized rundowns of steps to save energy. Gdansk, Poland, is proposing to require officials to debate ideas from citizens.
  • Reid Hamer-Jackson at his swearing in ceremony, Nov. 1, 2022. JONESIE: Why Reid Hamer-Jackson can't fight city hall
    OPINION I don’t live in Kamloops. Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson’s antics have no effect on me personally, so allow me to be a bit more philosophical about it. I want to like the guy, more for what he could represent than wh
  • Discharge coming from the Sandher Fruit Packer plant. Fruit packers near Kelowna fined another $78,000
    A fruit packing plant in the Ellison area east of Kelowna was hit with another $78,368 in fines for discharging effluent into a failed septic field. That’s now more than $110,000 in fines since 2022 for the same issue at Sandher Fruit

© 2024 InfoTel News Ltd
View Site in: Desktop | Mobile