Explore: Heat Sources

A heat pump is a device that uses electric power to transfer heat from a colder place to a warmer place. Specifically, the heat pump transfers thermal

In thermodynamics, heat is energy in transfer between a thermodynamic system and its surroundings by such mechanisms as thermal conduction, electromagnetic

A ground source heat pump (also geothermal heat pump) is a heating/cooling system for buildings that use a type of heat pump to transfer heat to or from

and from radioactive decay. Geothermal energy has been exploited as a source of heat and/or electric power for millennia. Geothermal heating, using water

An air source heat pump (ASHP) is a heat pump that can absorb heat from air outside a building and release it inside; it uses the same vapor-compression

In heat transfer, moving heat sources is an engineering problem, particularly in welding. In the early 20th century, welding engineers began studying moving

most notably by dropping flares behind the target to provide false heat sources. That works only if the pilot is aware of the missile and deploys the

chemical compound, which is commonly used as an interface between heat sinks and heat sources such as high-power semiconductor devices. The main role of thermal

large scale heat pumps, waste heat from cooling purposes and data centers and other sustainable energy sources. With those energy sources and large scale

heat from one location (the "source") at a certain temperature to another location (the "sink" or "heat sink") at a higher temperature. Thus a heat pump