{"id":495,"date":"2009-01-19T01:49:18","date_gmt":"2009-01-19T06:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/?p=495"},"modified":"2009-01-19T01:49:18","modified_gmt":"2009-01-19T06:49:18","slug":"tapping-the-earth-for-home-heating-and-cooling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/tapping-the-earth-for-home-heating-and-cooling\/","title":{"rendered":"Tapping the Earth For Home Heating and Cooling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>suraj.sun recommends a CNet post giving details of a still little-known energy technology: the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-11128_3-10131539-54.html\">ground source heat pump or geo-exchange system<\/a>. This is distinct from so-called geothermal energy, which taps the heat in the earth to provide energy. Geo-exchange is suitable in scale for small industry \u2014 the article describes one commercial re-development of an old mill into apartment and commercial space that put in a geo-exchange at about half the cost of traditional fossil fuel-based alternatives. Even some individual homeowners are opting for this green method of heating and cooling, at a premium in price of about 50 percent (but costs are very much per-project, largely because drilling is involved). <em>&#8220;Rather than use underground heat, geothermal heat pumps attached to buildings capitalize on the steady temperature of the ground or deep water wells. In effect, they treat the Earth like a giant energy savings bank, depositing or withdrawing heat depending on the time of year. &#8220;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>suraj.sun recommends a CNet post giving details of a still little-known energy technology: the ground source heat pump or geo-exchange system. This is distinct from so-called geothermal energy, which taps the heat in the earth to provide energy. Geo-exchange is suitable in scale for small industry \u2014 the article describes one commercial re-development of an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[456,4],"tags":[461,416,460,458,459,457],"class_list":["post-495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-revolution","category-nature","tag-eco","tag-ecology","tag-energy-savings","tag-geo-exchange-system","tag-green-tech","tag-ground-source-heat-pump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":497,"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions\/497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}