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Geothermal Energy - No Well Needed!
The Advanced Geothermal Systems seldom requires any significant change to the inside of your home. Today, most homes have a central forced air system. The central forced air system circulates air through the duct work in the house so that the homeowner can have heat in the winter and air conditioning in the summer. Several types of heating and cooling systems are in use with the central forced air system. Some common ones are a gas furnace with central air conditioning, an oil furnace with central air conditioning, or an air source heat pump with backup electric resistance heat. With these systems you must consider fuel availability and cost, maintenance cost, and initial installed cost. The Advanced Geothermal Heating and Cooling System replaces any of these heating and cooling systems and works with any central forced air system. Thus, the interior of the home stays the same. In fact, more space is generally available because the advanced Geothermal Equipment is usually smaller than the other equipment mentioned above and can be located outdoors if desired. The Advanced Geothermal Heating and Cooling System can also be used to provide radiant hot water heating with central air conditioning and can be used to provide domestic hot water. |
What makes the Advanced Geothermal Technology unique happens outside the home. We need to take heat out of the ground, and we need to be deep in the earth so that the ground temperature doesn’t change adversely with the seasons. To do this cost effectively, we use a drilling rig to drill a small hole in the ground. The hole is 70 feet deep and 3 inches in diameter. The number of holes that are drilled depends on the heating and cooling requirements of the home and ranges from 3 to 10 holes per system. To minimize disruption to the surface of the ground, these holes are generally drilled from a central point and are angled out around a circle, forming a conical shape in the ground. This gives us a large column of earth with a large surface area from which to draw heat energy during the winter. In the summer, we will store the energy removed from the house in this same space so that it may be reused to heat the house during the following winter. Thus, we are recycling the energy rather than discharging it in to the air and losing it forever as a central air conditioning system would |
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