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Comparison for /Trench Geothermal Cooling of 2006-09-23 23:32:22 and 2006-09-24 22:08:22

Additions:

Two methods:
Air tubes underground. Lead into the house – as a solar chimney pulls air from the house, cool air is drawn from the ground tubes into the house. Romans used these for cooling.
Geothermal Heating And Cooling uses a heat pump to both heat and cool the house using a ground loop heat sink/source. A simpler method simply uses a water pump, radiator, and a ground loop. The ground stays at a constant 54F, so a large enough ground loop would cool the water close to that temperature, which you can then use to cool the house with a blower and radiator. A water pump is significantly cheaper to run than an air conditioning compressor. More expensive than the air version above, but may be able to provide greater cooling capacity.

Deletions:

Geothermal Heating And Cooling uses a heat pump to both heat and cool the house using a ground loop heat sink/source. Trench Geothermal Cooling simply uses a water pump, radiator, and a ground loop. The ground stays at a constant 54F, so a large enough ground loop would cool the water close to that temperature, which you can then use to cool the house with a blower and radiator. A water pump is significantly cheaper to run than an air conditioning compressor.

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