What is geothermal energy?
There are two types: 1. High grade 2. Low grade High-grade geothermal energy is the heat of the earth’s pressure that turns water into stream. Old Faithful at Yellow Stone National Park is an excellent example. Low-grade geothermal energy is the heat within the earth’s crust. This heat is actually stored solar energy. ECONAR taps into this low grade geothermal energy and delivers big energy savings when heating, cooling and making hot water.
There are two types: 1. High grade geothermal energy 2. Low grade geothermal energyHigh-grade geothermal energy is the heat of the earth’s pressure that turns water into stream. Old Faithful at Yellow Stone National Park is an excellent example. Low-grade geothermal energy is the heat within the earth’s crust. This heat is actually stored solar energy. ASP taps into this low grade geothermal energy and delivers big energy savings when heating, cooling and making hot water.Q: What is a Geothermal Heat Pump? A heat pump is a mechanical device used for heating and cooling which operates on the principle that heat can be moved from a warmer temperature to a cooler temperature. A geothermal heat pump uses the earth to warm in the winter and cool in the summer. You already have a heat pump in your home – your refrigerator. If you put your hand behind it you’ll feel the heat that has been removed from the food inside the refrigerator. This is the same principle that ASP uses to move heat to a
Geothermal energy is energy that emits from the earth. It comes from magma and the radioactive decay of uranium, thorium, and potassium. Magma is hot because of the tremendous amount of friction and pressure to be found in the earth’s subsurface area. Geothermal energy, while massive in total, doesn’t do too well when compared to the amount of energy we get from the sun, which wins by a factor of about 20,000. Nevertheless, geothermal energy is tapped by over 20 countries, most notably Iceland, which gets 17% of its electricity from geothermal energy. The largest geothermal energy plants output a couple hundred MW (megawatts). It has been estimated that Iceland has enough geothermal energy to provide 1700 MW for over 100 years. The process of extracting power from the heat in the earth is pretty simple. You pump water through pipes to the source of the heat and let it boil, the stream runs a turbine which gathers power, then the water is recondensed and sent through the cycle again. If
