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Financing Cuts Upfront Geothermal Cost!
What is the biggest factor holding back geothermal heat pumps from being the most widely used heating and air conditioning systems? Upfront cost.. According to a study by the Geo-Heat Institute at the Oregon Institute of Technology, high installation cost of the ground loop is rated as the number one barrier to entry for geothermal heat pumps. While using the temperature underground to heat and cool a building is extremely efficient, it does require the additional cost to install a groun ...
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Calling Geothermal Users: Enter to Win Free Air Conditioning for Summer 2012
Free Heat Beneath Your Feet Sweepstakes
Do you own a geothermal system and often find yourself talking to your friends about it? Whenever someone comes into your home do you feel the need to take them into your utility room and show them your geothermal unit? Even if you do not go to this extent in telling others about geothermal, this is an opportunity for anyone who owns a geothermal heat pump to write a testimony on GeothermalGenius.org about your geothermal system and be entered to ...
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Bosch Partnering with Serenbe to Showcase Geothermal
A sustainable community
Just Southwest of Atlanta, GA there is an award-winning development named Serenbe Community. The founders, Rawson Haverty and Steve and Mary Nygren created Serenbe to be an example of balanced community development. In order to achieve balanced community development, they focus on land preservation, agriculture, energy efficiency, green building, walkability, high density building, arts and culture, and community living for multiple generations. Because a key ...
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Geothermal Makes Apartments More Affordable
Howdy, folks! Hope you're having a fabulous weekend! Thus far (on our Geothermal Heating and Cooling blog), we've discussed how geoexchange systems can be implemented in a variety of building and structure types. We've looked at geothermal in schools, geothermal sidewalks, greenhouse geothermal, and (of course) your run-of-the-mill heat pump in a home. That's the great thing about geo - it's versatile! So where else are geothermal heat pumps being utilized? If you guessed 'geothermal apartments' ...
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Geothermal Heating in North America
While citizens of Switzerland and Sweden wallow in their plentiful demand of geothermal heating and cooling, the countries of North America have fallen grossly behind. Consider this: While in excess of 75% of homes in these two adapting countries are heated and cooled by use of geoexchange, the United States and Canada boast an entire 1% of homeowners who utilize geothermal technology. One percent! Unreal, isn't it? Actually, no, it isn't unreal. These statistics are very real, and p ...
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