When temperatures drop and the house is quiet, the worst sound you can hear is nothing at all from your furnace or heat pump.

Mike De Socio is a CNET contributor who writes about energy, personal finance, electric vehicles and climate change. He's also the author of the nonfiction book, "Morally Straight: How the Fight for ...

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