Geothermal Heating and Cooling!

    Geothermal Heating and cooling is a great concept that will help our world become 'green'. Geothermal heating and cooling essentially uses the ground temperature 8-200 feet below the earths surface to heat and cool our homes. In the summer air is taken from the home and put underground where the temperature is cooler. Inversely in the winter heat is brought from the ground into the house.
    The temperature being hargvested, although a static temperature, through compression tanks it can still reach temperatures to heat your entire house as well as water for hot showers and washing dishes. This is great because it eliminates two things that have to use non recyclable energy sources out of our homes. This will save money as well as save our environment. There are many good things about Geothermal heating and cooling such as it can save 40-70 percent off a monthly energy bill.
    I find it fascinating that ground temperature can heat and cool an entire household. The pool and hot tub at the condo my family owns in Florida is heated by geothermal heating and cooling. Many companies and homes are starting to adapt this method of heating and cooling. Here at Champlain College we are using this for the new building they are constructing. This, over the next couple years, will easily pay for its self and continuously save the college money.
    This technology is truly revolutionary because it have the ability to harvest a very abundant resource and use it to control temperature in a home. Although it has been around for a few years, it is now becoming more affordable as well as the technology has been perfected and adapted. It is more probable to find the systems and will most likely become more common as it develops further.
   D Displayed blow is a video advertising this product and explains more on how it works as well as how it can help. Take notice how small the system really is, it takes up no more room then a traditional heating and cooling system and no additional maintenance. Installation is mainly the hassle of the system that deters people away.

    The man in the video is Don Zeman the founder of Homefront news and advice, a source of information on homeowner repairs and protections. He talks about everything from how to protect gutters to how to unclog a toilet. He does radio shows in order to educate the homeowner on how to handle certain tasks as well as does informational videos in order to educate. The above video was created to show how the geothermal system can help cut the energy bill and save up for something else.
http://www.homefront.com/

Geothermal Technology. 2008 . GeoComfort. Sept.8,2008 http://www.geocomfort.com/geothermal-technology.