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Home Heating Energy Savers
With the uncertainty of sufficient oil supplies, you may be searching for other means of heating your home. Surprisingly, that alternative could be right in your backyard and can be tapped by a heat pump.
  • A heat pump is a mechanical device that can transfer heat. In the winter, it transfers heat into your home; in the summer, it takes heat out of your home.
  • An air-source heat pump uses air to move heat from one location to another. In the summer, an air source heat pump works like an ordinary air conditioner, extracting heat from inside your home and pumping it outdoors. In the winter, it reverses itself and pumps heat into your house. That’s because even very cold air contains heat. For example, 0 degree Fahrenheit air still contains 89 percent of the heat that 100 degree air does.
  • A geothermal heat pump works just like an air-source heat pump but uses water to move heat. Usually either a open or closed loop system is used. Geothermal heat pump systems have the greatest potential for efficient and economical operation since ground temperatures remain fairly constant (around 50 degrees) most of the year.


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