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Geothermal heating and cooling (self.asklemmy)

submitted 2 days ago by thefatfrog to c/[email protected]

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Hello,

Does anyone here have any experience of using geothermal heat pumps to get hot water and heat home in winter and use the same geothermal loop to cool through HVAC in summer?

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[–] keckbug 2 points 1 day ago

It’s worth remembering that you’re not really drilling down until it’s “hot”, but rather just using a big stable thermal mass to exchange energy with. Once you’re below the top few feet of soil, your temperatures are gonna get pretty stable.