Geothermal is Simply Heat Transfer - Either to or from the Earth.

No matter the location, the earth contains heat. The lower below the surface, the higher the heat is but, more importantly, the more consistent the temperature is at that depth. This consistency of the "heat" is key to the application of geothermal technology. This relatively static temperature is easily extractable from the earth with no adverse consequences and highly beneficial economic benefit. This works equally well for cooling as for heating interior building spaces and great depths into the earth are not required to extract the benefits. Common misconceptions are that geothermal is only beneficial if applied in areas of geothermal springs or that otherwise drilling great depths into the earth for extraction of very high heat is necessary.

If you are in the Southeast, the ground underneath you at a level of no more that 5-6 feet should have a temperature range of somewhere between 50-65 degrees, no matter what time of year it may be. That is a very mild and favorable temperature range relative to our hot summer days and cold winter nights. It is also a near perfect temperature range for heat pump temperature exchange technology. Making economical use of Geothermal Heating and Cooling is a simple matter of transferring these cooler temperatures to your structure for summer time cooling or these warmer temperatures to your structure for winter time heating. With geothermal, you utilize temperature transfers from these more consistent and favorable ground temperatures whereas with conventional heat pump technology, you are transferring temperatures from the often less favorable, wider and more inconsistent temperature ranges of the outside air. As you are well aware, Southeastern outside air temperatures can regularly vary from the teens to over 100 degrees throughout the course of the year and those temperature extremes are always opposing to the temperatures desired inside your building.

This simple reality is why geothermal will deliver much more economical heating and cooling to your home, business, school or other structure.

WHAT IS GEOTHERMAL?

Geothermal is Simply Heat Transfer - Either to or from the Earth.