Geothermic and Aerothermic heating installations are rapidly becoming the benchmark for reduced energy consumption household heating systems. They are both based around using a heat transfer pump to ‘collect’ heat from an outside source, the ground or the air and transferring these into a heating grid or radiators in the house. Depending on the type of installation the pump can also act as a cooling system, similar to a fridge thus meaning the system acts as air conditioning.
These are heating systems that are controllable, confortable and economic. They emit no CO2 and the fluids used by my preferred manufacturer, Atlantic has no effect on the ozone.
Aerothermic : this is using the latent heat present in the air. The air transfers the calories, via the heat pump to the heating system within the house when in heating mode or, when in cooling mode will dissipate the heat to the outside. This system is particularly adapted to installations where terrain is limited.
Geothermic : this system uses the energy from the ground. The calories are collected by either a vertical ( a hole up to 80m deep ) or horizontal capture field ( a grid buried normally 80cm and covering a large area). Geothermic is suited to almost any climatic area and is capable of supplying all necessary heat if correctly sized. This system can also supply hot water and be used for pool heating.
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