Believe it or not, sales of oil furnaces are increasing. Granted, they’re still not flying off the shelves at the frequency they were during the peak years of the 1990s, when annual sales sometimes ...

Heating and cooling your home make up the biggest chunk of your home's energy costs. But not enough people are considering a heat pump as a solution. The Energy Information Administration data shows ...

Katherine Hamelin saw her home turned into a hazardous waste site. Nicholas Stephens had to rip his house off its foundation. Joe Hurley lost his retirement savings. And it can all happen because of a ...

Gas and oil furnaces burn fuel to provide heat for homes, and that presents a basic problem. Every combustion process produces noxious gases. How do you keep those gases from circulating throughout ...

Although it has been promoted mostly as a fuel for diesel-powered vehicles, biodiesel is perfectly suited as an additive or replacement fuel in a standard oil-fired furnace or boiler. When used as a ...

Bob is a service technician who is well trained and nationally certified. However, he sometimes suffers from the same confusion that all technicians occasionally do - the facts that he gathers may or ...

A blend of degummed soybean oil and No. 2 fuel oil can be used as an alternative heating fuel and reduce sulfur emissions, according to a Purdue University scientist. Klein Ileleji, an assistant ...

The federal Liberal government's decision to drop carbon tax from furnace oil has turned home heating into a hot political topic, including in northern Ontario where thousands are on oil heat. Most of ...

Heat pumps, long overlooked in the world of heating, are attracting new interest from companies and consumers as momentum builds to cut the use of fossil fuels. Unlike furnaces fueled by natural gas ...