Browsing articles tagged with " geothermal closed loop trenches"
Jun
22
2011
22
2011
Digging Geothermal Closed Loop Trenches
The most commonly installed kind of geothermal heat pump is a closed loop system. In a closed loop, pipes are buried in the area around the house in order to circulate water and refrigerant to transfer heat in or out of the house as needed. When the system needs heat it absorbs it from the ground and when it does not it leaks it out. This energy transfer equates to significant savings as opposed to […]