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Tapping the heat beneath your feet with Kathy Hannun of Dandelion Energy

How I Built This with Guy Raz

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How to Heat and Cool Your Home With a Geothermal System

When you have heating oil, which many people in the northeast do, it's basically paying for a subscription service. You need what are called ground loops, which are just plastic pipes buried in the ground. They typically extend 200 to 500 feet into the ground and they're only inch and a quarter in diameter. Then you'll have a heat pump, which essentially looks like a furnace, and it goes where your furnace was,. That will be typically in your basement or in your utility closet. then you need to connect them so it can feed water to that heat pump in the house.

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