Funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, the lab experiments with harnessing deep Earth heat for geothermal energy, potentially deployable anywhere. Techniques from hydraulic fracturing are applied to ...

URBANA — In an ongoing effort to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, the University of Illinois is installing a novel geothermal heating and cooling system within the foundation of a building addition ...

Researchers at the University of Padova in Italy have proposed to improve the performance of residential air heat pumps with air-geothermal heat exchangers and have found this combination may reduce ...