Homeowners can cut costs with geothermal systems

The winter of 2014 was a wake-up call for homeowners facing higher-than-normal heating costs.

With polar vortex cold sweeps, heavy snowfalls and ice blizzards affecting much of the country, energy prices for electricity, gas and oil have increased. Propane prices have skyrocketed due to scarcity of supplies, leading some governors to declare a state of emergency.

The hefty costs of

heating and cooling

Many homeowners, concerned that energy prices for air conditioning this summer could be just as high, followed by yet another tough winter, are looking for alternative sources for heating and cooling. Higher performing, energy-efficient heating and cooling products are available, but they are still dependent on fossil fuels.

Renewable forms of energy like solar and wind wont solve the problem.

Such sources dont work all the time and require backup in the form of a conventional heating-cooling system, so the dependence on high-cost fossil fuels remains.

from the ground up

However, there is a viable renewable solution. Its called geothermal and its energy source is the very earth beneath our feet. Because the earth absorbs 50 percent of the suns energy more than 500 times more energy than mankind needs every year there is an abundant power source in the earth to tap for heating and cooling. Geothermal systems transfer this heat from a home during the cooling season and return it to the earth during the heating season. Geothermal is possible because the temperature of the earth at 4 to 6 feet below ground remains relatively constant year-round.

A geothermal system is the answer to todays and tomorrows high energy prices, said Lyndal Moore, national geothermal sales manager for Bosch, a manufacturer of geothermal heat pumps. But thats just the beginning.

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Homeowners can cut costs with geothermal systems