bboy244 asked:


When people talk about energy replacement we hear about wind and solar.Are any companies making advancements in geothermal energy for homes and businesses.?

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HappyGoLucky asked:


This is a very interesting comparison….please read.

House 1:

The four-bedroom home was planned so that “every room has a relationship with something in the landscape that’s different from the room next door. Each of the rooms feels like a slightly different place.” The resulting single-story house is a paragon of environmental planning.

The passive-solar house is built of honey-colored native limestone and positioned to absorb winter sunlight, warming the interior walkways and walls of the 4,000-square-foot residence.

Geothermal heat pumps circulate water through pipes buried 300 feet deep in the ground. These waters pass through a heat exchange system that keeps the home warm in winter and cool in summer. A 25,000-gallon underground cistern collects rainwater gathered from roof urns; wastewater from sinks, toilets, and showers cascades into underground purifying tanks and is also funneled into the cistern. The water from the cistern is then used to irrigate the landscaping around the four-bedroom home, which uses indigenous grasses, shrubs, and flowers to complete the exterior treatment of the home.

In addition to its minimal environmental impact, the look and layout of the house reflect one of the paramount priorities: relaxation. A spacious 10-foot porch wraps completely around the residence and beckons the family outdoors. With few hallways to speak of, family and guests make their way from room to room either directly or by way of the porch. “The house doesn’t hold you in. Where the porch ends there is grass. There is no step-up at all.”

This house consumes 25% of the energy of an average American home.
(Source: Cowboys and Indians Magazine, Oct. 2002 and Chicago Tribune April 2001.)

House 2:

This 20-room, 8-bathroom house consumes more electricity every month than the average American household uses in an entire year. The average household in America consumes 10,656 kilowatt-hours (kWh) per year, according to the Department of Energy. In 2006, this house devoured nearly 221,000 kWh, more than 20 times the national average.

Last August alone, the house burned through 22,619 kWh, guzzling more than twice the electricity in one month than an average American family uses in an entire year. As a result of this energy consumption, the average monthly electric bill topped $1,359.

Also, natural gas bills for this house and guest house averaged $1,080 per month last year. In total, this house had nearly $30,000 in combined electricity and natural gas bills for 2006.

(Source: just about anywhere in the news last month online and on talk radio, but barely on TV.)

House 1 belongs to George and Laura Bush, and is in Crawford, Texas.

House 2 belongs to Al and Tipper Gore, and is in Nashville, Tennessee.
I do not think that one is better than the other. After watching Gore’s movie, yes I was motivated as a person to make my own changes in ways that I can.

The facts still remain, while Gore is making his house more friendly to the enviro, it does not mean that his house is totally solar powered, or uses all green enrg. Can he not down size…

While it would be nice for Bush to push for more envionmentally friendly legislation, why do we not take it upon ourselves to make the change and the difference.

Do we have to have the goverenment, tell us what to do? Can we not act on our own accord to make things right.

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Cool_dude asked:


Could you guys please tell me what hot springs, geysers, and geothermal energy HAVE to do with volcanic activity?

Vocabulary- in case people need it-
* Geyser- A geyser is a type of hot spring that erupts periodically, ejecting a column of hot water and steam into the air.

* Geothermal Energy/power- Geothermal power is the use of geothermal heat to generate electricity. It is often referred to as a form of renewable energy, but because the heat at any location can eventually be depleted it is by definition not strictly renewable.

Thanks!

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sally s asked:


Reserves are lower than previously thought, perhaps even in Iran and Saudi Arabia. Oil shale (and Canadian oil) will be much more costly to produce…. and the costs of global warming are HUGE,
more than spending even the billions wasted on nuclear power.
IF we spend a few billions on research and development of solar and wind small scale, locally sited alternatives, we’ll be money ahead and avoid disasters, since MOST INDUSTRIES and AGRIGULTURE are currently dependent on oil: Pharmaceuticals, pesticides, herbicides, as well as transport and heating/cooling. There’s no excuse for not having solar hot WATER, as Spain sees, in requiring all new construction to have solar hot water. How long before we’ll be FORCED to use alternatives, and then likely not have time to develop the best technologies? …. Wouldn’t lots of R&D on solar, wind, and geothermal help us more than a war for control of oil-rich regions?

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Wes H asked:


I really want to install geothermal heating in my recently purchased 2,000sqft home in Alaska, but couldn’t find any contractors in the area. So, I wonder if it’s even doable there, or if it just gets too cold. If it is doable, then how easy and expensive would it be to install myself?

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aaron asked:


Kay i have a homework assignment for geothermal energy and i need to know the following things
Most economicallly promising areas for geothermal energy around the world
Causes of the heat
Methods of converting heat into usable energy
Your method of using this energy directly

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wrestlerchick asked:


How are we currently using Geothermal?
I know some about Geothermal but i am having a hard time finding statistics on this to make my speech offical, could some one help?
Hot springs keep spas running and are a vacation destination for many. Not only can this energy be used for recreation, but it is also useful in the agricultural world because it heats green houses and is used in the industrial world to produce hydrogen, pasteurize milk and other processed items.

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stains asked:


Please share you experience- who installed it, how much did it cost, how well does it work, how much did your energy bills change by. if u have or had solar and could compare please do. trying to decide if it’s worth it to do this.

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punkpinaii19 asked:


2.geothermal energy to heat energy
3.chemical energy to mechanical energy
4.light energy to chemical energy

what are the 3 differences between light reaction and dark reaction in photosynthesis

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familyscribe asked:


George W. Bush’s home in Crawford Texas is an environmentalist’s dream. I would love to find out more about the details of how the water system (a gray water collection, filter and recycling system) works as well as the heating and cooling (geothermal). I found a parody site and I find lots of short descriptions but I’m really looking for an in depth site that describes these systems and shows floor plans (the equipment is stashed in interior closets). And if there isn’t a website on this, and the Feds are reading this, tell W to order himself up a site. I’m sure there are lots of info the rest of us could apply to our own homes.

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