Solar Photovoltaic, Solar Thermal, Geothermal starter Homes – Video Looking for your first home or a place to call home that is energy efficient and budget friendly? Garbett Homes “Utah’s Freshest Home Builder” makes going green easy on the wallet. All homes now come standard with Solar Photovoltaic, Solar Thermal or Geothermal heat. This has [...]
There are quite a few reasons to substitute your furnace and air conditioner with geothermal heating and cooling, but most likely the most compelling is the quantity of money you can conserve on your utility bills. Every homeowner knows that it costs thousands of dollars year round to keep their home comfortable utilizing a traditional [...]
A little covered but growing alternative power source attracting large sums of both private and federal funding is geothermal energy. As working rig counts have fallen dramatically since this time last year (Baker Hughes reports only 899 rigs working this week, down over a thousand from a year ago) geothermal exploration may provide a still [...]
Whether you are cresting the peak of a majestic volcano or walking on a city street, there are immense amounts of heat beneath your feet – enough to provide all the energy the human population will ever need. In most places, though, that heat is trapped by solid rock – unavailable to our carbon-choked, energy-hungry populace. [...]
Within six months of discovering a massive geothermal field, a small Utah company had erected and fired up a power plant – just one example of the speed with which companies are capitalizing on state mandates for alternative energy. Anticipation of new energy policies has sparked a rush on land leases as companies like Raser [...]
Good as wind and solar energy can be to provide peak power, they are no substitute to coal fired or nuclear as base load power to provide electricity 24 hours a day. The increasing evidence is that planet earth needs a sharp reduction in carbon pollution, if the disastrous consequences of global warming are to [...]
