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Luise Cox is upgrading her 1960s bungalow in Mississauga, Ont., this week by tearing out and hauling away the old air conditioner and natural gas furnace. Instead, crews are replacing those units with a brand new heat pump (and some extra…

The hottest drink of the summer may be the SEAS-colada. Here's what you need to make it: gin, pineapple juice, coconut milk and a dielectric elastomer actuator-based soft peristaltic pump. Unfortunately, the last component can only be found…

Drivers are used to working hard to find the best price for a tank of fuel.Supermarkets, it turns out, have been working only as hard as they need to to provide it. A Competition and Markets Authority investigation into fuel…

Increased supermarket profit margins led to drivers paying an extra 6p per litre for fuel last year, an investigation has found.It said that increased supermarket fuel margins led to drivers paying an extra 6p per litre. Asda…

Canadians heading out on the road for the July 1 long weekend are going to find filling up at the pumps much less shock-inducing than it was a year ago.The national average gasoline price hit an all-time high — surpassing $2.10 per litre —…

Global oil prices have slumped and India has access to larger amounts of discounted Russian crude oil, yet refiners are not passing on their savings to consumers. IMAGE: A petrol filling station in Ahmedabad. Photograph posted only for…

Last Updated: May 27, 2023, 15:53 ISTOn May 19, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) announced the withdrawal of Rs 2,000 currency notes from circulation but gave the public time till September 30 to either deposit such notes in accounts or…

Oil prices continued to plummet on Wednesday, with Brent futures dropping by 4 percent to $72.33 a barrel, marking the global benchmark's lowest close since December 2021. Meanwhile, US West Texas Intermediate crude (WTI) fell 4.3 percent…

Canadians, especially those who heat their home by burning fossil fuels, are being encouraged to switch to electric heat pumps to cut greenhouse gas emissions.But what parts of Canada and what temperatures are they suitable for? Do you need…

The critical importance of heat pumps to the German economy was underscored this week when the sale of a family-owned maker of the heating machines to a U.S. company prompted a review by the government in Berlin.Carrier Global Corp. said…