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Today\u2019s podcast is for homeowners who want to understand the basics about ultra-efficient geothermal heating and cooling, why your neighbors are moving to geothermal, and how easy it is to have geothermal installed in your home - without the pain of emptying your savings account.

I\u2019m your host, Ron Kamen. My life mission is to empower everyday people like you to make clean energy transitions that reduce your carbon footprint, save you money, and create a proud legacy for your grandchildren.

For more than three decades, I\u2019ve energized thousands of homeowners, communities, governments, non-profits, and businesses with the ability to \u201cGo Clean & Save Green\u201d.

As the host of the AWESome EarthKind Podcast, I explain how technology is now capturing the Forces of Nature to meet our electricity, heating, cooling and transportation needs \u2013 and saving people money when they make that evolution.

Burning any type of fossil fuel \u2013 whether it\u2019s oil, coal, natural gas, propane, or wood -provides energy efficiencies that are significantly less than 100% efficient. A brand new high tech gas burner can have efficiencies in in the 97% range. But with older systems \u2013 and with hot water during the summer \u2013 energy efficiency drops dramatically, sometimes wasting 1/3rd to 2/3s of the energy that we\u2019re paying for.

Heat pumps create heat with dramatically better efficiencies.

Sign up for a free webclass to discover how easy it is to get ultra-efficient geothermal heating and cooling installed in your home \u2013 without the pain of emptying your savings account.

Virtually everyone has a least one type of heat pump \u2014 our refrigerator and freezer. Heat pumps use compression and expansion to move heat from one location (inside the box) to the outside via heat dispersion coils.

An air conditioner is another type of heat pump that moves the heat from inside our buildings to the outside air. An Air Source Heat Pump is an Air Conditioner that reverses that process during the winter to move heat from the outside air into our buildings. Cold Climate Heat Pumps can now concentrate heat even when the air temperature is as low as minus 15 F.

The energy efficiency of an Air Source Heat Pump is 200-300%. Since we start with the temperature of the air, for every unit of electricity we put into the system, we get 2 to 3 units of heating and cooling out.

A Ground Source \u2014 or Geothermal \u2014 Heat Pump does the same thing. But, instead of starting with the ambient air temperature, a Geothermal Heat Pump sends a fluid into pipes underground where the earth\u2019s constant temperature of ~55 F in the northeast US is transferred and returned to our utility rooms.\xa0

The same type of Heat Pump compression and expansion then bumps the temperature up to provide hot water year round and heat during the winter -\xa0 or starts with the 55 degree temperatures to cool our homes during the summer.

Geothermal Heat Pumps provide efficiencies of 400 to 500%. For every unit of electricity put into a ground source heat pump, we get 4 to 5 units of heating and cooling out.

Geothermal systems tap into the largest heat storage system in the world - right under our feet. For billions of years, the earth has been absorbing the sun\u2019s energy. The planet\u2019s constant temperature just a few feet underground can meet all our heating, cooling, and hot water needs \u2014 with a minimum amount of energy to move that heat in or out of our buildings.

There are actually 2 types of Geothermal.\xa0 In the western United States and Hawaii, Geothermal electric power plants use steam from hot water reservoirs a few miles below the earth's surface. That steam rotates turbines in generators that produce electricity.\xa0While California & Nevada are the biggest generators of geothermal electricity in the country, the Big Island of Hawaii gets actually 25% of their electricity from geothermal electricity power plants.

But everywhere else in the US, Geothermal refers to Ground Source Heat Pumps - the most efficient technology for heating, cooling, and creating hot water.\xa0

Geothermal \u2013vcan provide savings up to 70% less than traditional fossil fuel technologies.

Saint Patrick\u2019s Cathedral \u2013 one of the best know icons in New York City - has Geothermal. The geothermal wells reach 2000\u2019 down into the Manhattan bedrock. The system was the LEAST cost option for this historic building-\xa0 AND it is saving them over 30% a year in energy costs.

In the next the Power of Earth with Comfort podcast, you\u2019ll hear how your local utility provides cash incentives for your transition to clean heat.\xa0\xa0

In another episode, you\u2019ll also hear from a homeowner about why they decided to move to geothermal, and how they now have a clean, healthy, comfortable, sustainable, and economic geothermal heating and cooling system in their home.

In \u201cThe Power Of Earth with Comfort\u201d From ClimateMaster a free webclass, you\u2019ll discover the answers every homeowner needs to know, including:

• How geothermal heating and cooling can draw energy from the ground beneath our feet (for pennies)
• Why homeowners everywhere are making the switch.
• The secrets to securing utility incentives and tax credits to pay for a large portion of your new geothermal system

and much more \u2026

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