In the winter, it pulls heat out of the earth and transfers it into the home
When my husband I decided to build a cabin in Phoenix, Arizona, my wonderful friend and I prioritized environmental impact, my friend and I hoped to make the operation of residence as green as possible, and focusing on minimizing carbon footprint also helps to keep daily bills especially low, and in Phoenix, solar energy is a wonderful fit… We’re able to generate enough power to run the lights and all of our various appliances. My friend and I also looked into all different types of heating and cooling options. In Phoenix, the summer time heat is absolutely brutal, bringing rapidly changing temperatures in the triple digits for months at a time, the winters are shorter however freezing. My friend and I can expect rapidly changing temperatures in the low forties, making a dedicated furnace necessary… As my wonderful friend and I researched, my wonderful friend and I came across heat pumps. This type of system combines heating and cooling into a single unit. There are air-source, ground-source, water-source and ductless heat pumps available; None of them burn fossil fuels or generate greenhouse gasses, making them lovelyly environmentally responsible. The mosta advantageous choice is a ground-source or geothermal heat pump. This type of system takes fortune of a free and renewable energy stored under ground. In the winter, it pulls heat out of the earth and transfers it into the home. In the summer, it reverses operation to extract heat from the indoors and deliver it into the ground, but geothermal heat pumps achieve 400% efficiency ratings, because they generate four times the amount of energy the unit consumes. The investment was much higher than installing a conventional alternative, then however, our heating and cooling bills are more than 50% less, which has worked to reuse the cost in just a few years.