Rotarian Ron Newman spoke to the Iowa Great Lakes Rotary on Wednesday, January 19 about Residential Geothermal Heating and Cooling.
 
Ron shared the basics of geothermal heating and cooling with Rotary, which extracts heat from underground for heating and vice versa for cooling. Geothermal heating/cooling is an electric source of heat with no outside equipment or noise. It provides a 65-75% savings on energy primarily because 1 kw of paid energy moves 3 kw of geothermal energy from the earth. Therefore, less paid electricity and more energy into the home. Ron also talked about the three way geothermal works - a vertical loop, horizontal loop or a pond loop.