Comfort Express

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Geothermal heating, cooling, and water heating is today's #1 idea for homes and businesses. Today's systems are the result of decades of worldwide research and development dating back to the early 1900's. Recent developments in technology and in-ground materials, combined with advanced research by Oklahoma State University, the International Ground Source Heat Pump Association, the Electric Power Research Institute, National Rural Electric Cooperatives Association and individual state and utility research groups, have led to an unprecedented acceptance and satisfaction rating by owners. Today, geothermal heating and cooling systems account for a higher percentage of installations than ever. But even more important are the owner satisfaction ratings, energy efficiency ratings and cost savings being reported. Geothermal utilizes technology that simply transfers heat and distributes it through the building's duct system. Refrigerators, air conditioners, and freezers are all forms of this technology. These familiar devices "create" cool air by removing heat from interior spaces and moving it to another place. The ability to move heat is the key to geothermal's incredible efficiency. In fact, the most efficient gas and oil furnaces use three times as much energy to create heat as geothermal uses to move the same amount of heat. In the summer, the system reverses its heat-moving process to cool homes and businesses. HOW GEOTHERMAL WORKS: Geothermal heating, cooling, and water heating is a year-round system that transfers heat to or from the ground or water to provide interior comfort. This is accomplished by either an open-loop or closed-loop geothermal system. In the summer it functions as an air conditioner, and in the winter it provides carefree heating comfort. An open-loop system is created when a conventional well is used as the heat source. Well water is pumped into the heat pump heat exchanger, heat is extracted and delivered into the home or business, and the water is then deposited back into a stream, river, lake, pond, ditch or a second well. If a second well is used, this is known as a return well, and it returns the water directly to the ground aquifer. A closed-loop system circulates a solution through buried plastic pipe arranged either horizontally or vertically.

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