Geothermal: Cut Your Energy Bill in Half!
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Geothermal: Cutting Your Energy Bill in Half!
Geothermal energy is an alternative energy source that can potentially reduce your energy bill in half! The use of this alternative energy source, with low atmospheric emissions, has a beneficial effect on our environment by displacing more polluting fossil and nuclear fuels. As one of the cleaner energy forms is now available in commercial quantities. Rapidly growing energy needs around the world will make geothermal energy exceedingly important in several developing countries. In the production of geothermal energy, wells are used to bring hot water or steam to the surface from underground reservoirs. The thermal energy carried in the produced fluid can be used for direct heating in residential, agricultural, and industrial applications; or the thermal energy of higher temperature systems can be used to produce electricity.
Geothermal energy provides an enormous resource for low-temperature applications such as heating and cooling buildings, drying agricultural products, and process heating for industry. For example, geothermal heat pumps can be installed in almost all areas of the U.S. to provide greater efficiency in
heating and cooling of buildings and supplying hot water than either all electric systems or systems with air-source heat pumps. Only a modest part of the potential of geothermal energy has been developed because the service industry is small and the price of competing energy sources is low.
Geothermal energy is created by the heat of the earth. It generates reliable power and emits almost no greenhouse gases. This is how it works: When groundwater seeps below the earth’s surface near a dormant volcano, the water is heated by reservoirs of molten rock, usually at depths of up to 9,800 feet (3,000 m). Wells similar to those used to produce crude oil and natural gas are drilled to recover the water. Once captured, steam and hot water are separated. The steam is cleaned and sent to the power plant. The separated water is returned to the reservoir, helping to regenerate the steam source.
What Are the Benefits?
In addition to providing clean, renewable power, geothermal energy has significant environmental advantages. Geothermal emissions contain no chemical pollutants or waste - they consist mostly of water, which is re-injected underground.
Geothermal energy is a reliable source of power that reduces the need for imported fuels. It’s also renewable because it is based on a practically limitless resource - natural heat within the earth.
The electricity produced by our geothermal power operations is sold to local power grids, providing clean energy to fuel the growth of some of the most rapidly expanding economies in the world.
Most US southern companies looking to invest in geothermal to not only cut their energy bill in half, but to help the environment are looking to a company called, Energy Systems founded in 1982 by Tommy and Veronica Marshall. This company has been servicing business and residential areas for over 27 years with this new alternative source. They are truly on the cutting edge!
Contact Energy Systems: 850.456.5612
Web: www.energysystemsac.com
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