Granite Geek: The oldest heating fuel is still useful, for better or worse

By: DAVID BROOKS

Outlets: Concord Monitor

Published: September 14, 2026

Words: 638

Last Updated: 3 days, 23 hours ago


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My wife and I recently had an electric heat pump installed in half of our house because we want to spend less money keeping warm. Also, our furnace is old and could die at any time, and we didn’t want to be stuck scrambling for a replacement.

This means that our house, like many in New Hampshire, now has heating sources dating from three separate centuries: a 21st-century heat pump, a 20th-century oil-fired …

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