Save Money With a Geothermal Heating System
Tuesday, November 25th, 2008 | Places
Whether it’s cold again and time for the dreaded heating bill, or summer with the high cooling costs. It seems that no matter which fossil fuel you choose, prices always seem to skyrocket during the peak usage months. One year, heating oil goes sky-high. The next year propane seems to be outrageously expensive. Another year propane is cost prohibitive. And what have I just read? Electric rates to rise another 15%? One way to try to beat the high cost of cooling or heating your home is with geothermal technology. Geothermal heat pumps use the Earth’s natural energy to warm or cool your home. Geothermal Heating Cost Savings can be as much as 30% especially in the North America where ground heat can be used to heat a majority of the homes in the cooler climates.
A friend of ours is environmentally conscious and of the threatpossibility of global warming, our explotation of fossil fuels, and our use on foreign oil. So they decided to help by upgrading their heater. They got rid of their old oil burning furnace that heated their home and instead replaced it with a Geothermal Home Heating unit. This unit uses the Earth’s constant source of energy to both heat their home in the winter, and cool it in the summer. It uses scarce amounts electricity to operate, and consumes no other fossil fuels. With this geothermal system in their home, they are saving the Earth’s natural resources while doing something beneficial for the environment.