The Future of Energy

For over 100 years our nation’s preference for, and dependence on, fossil fuel-based heating and cooling solutions has been based on the artificially low prices and the apparent abundance of these sources of cheap energy.

Regular increases in the demand for more energy, and struggles to keep up the supplies of rapidly diminishing resources, as well as negative environmental impacts and climate-change concerns all put pressures to increase the prices we pay for our heating and cooling energy sources.

Heating and cooling our homes, offices, schools, malls, manufacturing plants, etc. accounts for 40-60% of the total energy we consume here in the USA. Coal-fired power plants, natural gas, and heating oil are the primary sources currently used to meet our needs.

While the utility companies are mobilizing to upgrade our aging national power distribution grid – creating a new, efficient “smart grid,” they are also scrambling to build new coal and nuclear power plants. And government mandates are forcing them to increase the percentage of power they supply from cleaner, renewable alternative sources (solar, wind, geothermal, & biomass).

Until recently, we’ve gotten used to these sources being abundant and relatively cheap, but all the fossil fuel sources are facing several pressures that have already begun to drive up their prices, and turn up the volume from the many sources asking for affordable, sustainable alternative energy sources.

Geothermal Loop Exchanger (Ground Source Heat Pump) systems are clean, sustainable, and efficient; extracting up to five times the energy required to run the system. When combined with basic energy efficiency building techniques (insulation, tight construction, etc.), these systems can reduce a building’s heating and cooling utility costs by up to 60%.