What is Geothermal Heating and Cooling?
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Posted in: Appliances & Gadgets, Geothermal, Heating & Cooling, Tax Credits and Financing, Video
Geothermal / GeoExchange® heating and cooling uses the relatively constant temperature of the earth to heat and cool homes and businesses with 40% to 70% less energy than conventional systems. While conventional furnaces and boilers burn a fuel to generate heat, geothermal heat pumps use electricity to simply move heat from the earth into buildings, allowing much higher efficiencies. The most efficient fuel-burning heater can reach efficiencies around 95%, but a geothermal heat pump can move up to 4 units of heat for every unit of electricity needed to power the system, resulting in a practical equivalence of over 400% efficiency.
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September 18th, 2009 at 4:01 pm
[...] if you install a $28,000 solar system it would only cost you $19,600. Or a $21,000 geothermal system would cost only $14,700. Throw in some state and local tax incentives and you’d be a fool [...]
March 23rd, 2010 at 10:31 pm
The setup costs are higher than for conventional systems, but the difference is usually returned in energy savings in 3 to 10 years.