What is Geo-exchange Heating and Cooling?
The geo-exchange system in the Mason Block provides hot water for domestic use as well as space heating and cooling. Geo-exchange heating and cooling is a process of borrowing and replacing heat energy from the earth’s crust. In most conventional heating systems gas or electricity is used to create heat. In geo-exchange electricity is used to move heat to and from the earth’s crust and to concentrate it until usable temperature differences are achieved. The Mason Block system uses a series of wells, heat recovery coils, heat pumps and solar panels. The wells act as an interface with the ground. The heat recovery coils extract heat from waste water and exhausted air. Heat pumps concentrate the heat energy until it is boosted to a useful temperature. Solar panels re-charge the geo-exchange field. The system extracts heat energy from the ground during the winter and stores it in the summer. The system has been balanced so that the heat energy added to the field during the summer will equa
