A home in Connecticut is heated and cooled by a ground source heat pump, which also provides much of the heating for hot water. Totals cost was $19, 283, about $3,000 more than a comparable oil furnace and electric air conditioning. Given that the house has nearly 3,000 sq. ft. of conditioned space, I’ll guesstimate [...]
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Heat and cool your home with geothermal energy
This highly informative video by Bruce Ritchey, CEO of WaterFurnace International, details how geothermal heat pumps can be used to heat and cool homes. Not only is the cost less than with conventional systems, the systems are quiet, environmentally friendly, and require less maintenance.
These heat pumps use the stable temperature of the earth a few [...]
Geothermal heat pump
Geothermal energy can be used to heat homes in the winter and cool them in the summer.
[The] ground temperature is warmer than the air above it during the winter and cooler than the air in the summer. The GHP takes advantage of this by exchanging heat with the earth through a ground heat exchanger.
As with [...]
