Geothermal 

Geothermal energy is the heat from the Earth. It’s clean and sustainable. Resources of geothermal energy range from the shallow ground to hot water and hot rock found a few miles beneath the Earth’s surface, and down even deeper to the extremely high temperatures of molten rock called magma.

Extract from Geothermal Energy Technology

Serving Monroe, Carbon, Lehigh, Schuylkill, Northampton, Luzerne, Berks, and Surrounding Counties

Facts

• The Geothermal System is three times as efficient as any other heating system.
• Unlike oil, propane, gas or electric resistance, the geothermal system moves energy rather than producing energy or heat, via combustion or resistance.
• Geothermal heat pump systems have efficiency levels of 300 to 400%, which far exceed natural gas furnaces.
• A geothermal system has no combustion component, the system requires no chimney, there is no concern about carbon/monoxide poisoning, and the heating/cooling system costs 30 to 70% cheaper to operate than other heating systems.
• Geothermal systems provide space conditioning — heating, cooling, and humidity control.

Geothermal heat pump systems have efficiency levels of 300 to 400%, which far exceed natural gas furnaces.

• They may also provide water heating by preheating the water going into the water heater.
• Geothermal systems work by moving heat, rather than by converting chemical energy to heat.
• The system works by using the “natural or ambient temperature” of the subsurface, i.e., “The Earth”, to both heat and cool your home.

The geothermal system has three major subsystems:

1. Geothermal Heat Pump – to move heat between the building and the fluid in the earth connection
2. Earth Connection – for transferring heat between its fluid and the earth
3. Distribution Subsystem – for delivering heating or cooling to the building.

Heating Mode

In the heating mode, heat is extracted from the fluid in the earth connection by the geothermal heat pump and distributed to the home or building — typically through a system of air ducts.
Cooler air from the building is returned to the geothermal heat pump, where it cools the fluid flowing to the earth connection. The fluid is then re-warmed as it flows through the earth connection.