To keep the house warm in the cold months, you turn up the heat. That may mean cranking up a furnace, but for a growing number of Americans, it means dialing up the heat pump. Heat pumps offer plenty ...

It's not as simple as having a tree-hugging son. Making the switch to a heat pump takes a little more forethought. Mike De Socio is a CNET contributor who writes about energy, personal finance, ...