Essentially, it's a different way to heat your home with natural gas or electricity. You still have to use one of those to heat the water.

None of these bills contain any provisions to keep electricity affordable in Maryland.

The demand for home appliances whose power consumption and electricity costs are low is steadily increasing. NEC Electronics' 8- and 32-bit motor control solutions are designed to help system developers meet this demand, and are the first products in a line the company plans to expand in the future.

We tested his clothes with a static electricity field meter and measured a current of 40,000 volts, which is one step shy of spontaneous combustion, where his clothes would have self-ignited.

Heat pumps have the advantage of replacing air at the same time they heat it. The problem in the Chicago area is that when it gets below zero, they are not as effective, and you do need some backup system.

It's probably, in the Chicago area, close to 90 percent of the homes using natural gas. The reason being, quite frankly, natural gas has been the most affordable and available heating sources over the past 30 years.