http://jaycurrie.info-syn.com/geoexchange/ One Damn Thing Leads to Another Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:20:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 http://jaycurrie.info-syn.com/geoexchange/#comment-4880 kerry Bolton Thu, 14 Dec 2006 04:24:15 +0000 http://jaycurrie.info-syn.com/geoexchange/#comment-4880 Geothermal heat are proven reliable and effective and have been preferred because of their comfort and economy long before anyone started the global warming hysteria. I discovered them years ago and am even more enthusiastic today. Most of the new alternative energy sources , quite frankly, have overpromised and underdelivered. If you want to be discouraged, just take a lok at the pathetic performance of wind power,one of the most popular alternative energies. Its proponents consistently lie about it output, quoting boilerplate megawatt capacities that overstate its actual output, even in good wind sites by more than threefold. Also note that 16,000 new megawatts had to be added to the U.S. power generation just in the last year, yet even though more wind turbines have been constructed than ever before, the output of all those turbines errected during the last year does not equal 5 percent of just the increase in capacity. It's also true that when power demand peaks during hot summer late afternoons, output from wind turbines is characteristically not available. By my estimate, not only does money used to subsidize geothermal heat pump systems produce 8 times the effect of spending the money on wind turbines, but it also results in a higher standard of living for the homeowner,which is the opposite effect of wind. In my opinion, geoexchange should be required by the building code. It's that important and beneficial. Geothermal heat are proven reliable and effective and have been preferred because of their comfort and economy long before anyone started the global warming hysteria. I discovered them years ago and am even more enthusiastic today. Most of the new alternative energy sources , quite frankly, have overpromised and underdelivered. If you want to be discouraged, just take a lok at the pathetic performance of wind power,one of the most popular alternative energies. Its proponents consistently lie about it output, quoting boilerplate megawatt capacities that overstate its
actual output, even in good wind sites by more than threefold. Also note that 16,000 new megawatts had to be added to the U.S. power generation just in the last year, yet even though more wind turbines have been constructed than ever before, the output of all those turbines errected during the last year does not equal 5 percent of just the increase in capacity. It’s also true that when power demand peaks during hot summer late afternoons, output from wind turbines is
characteristically not available. By my estimate, not only does money
used to subsidize geothermal heat pump systems produce 8 times the effect of spending the money on wind turbines, but it also results in a higher standard of living for the homeowner,which is the opposite effect of wind. In my opinion, geoexchange should be required by the building code. It’s that important and beneficial.

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