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title: "Geothermal Heat Pumps: A Guide for Planning and Installing"
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# Geothermal Heat Pumps: A Guide for Planning and Installing

**Brand:** karl ochsner
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- **What is this?** Geothermal Heat Pumps: A Guide for Planning and Installing by karl ochsner
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## Customer Reviews

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    Excellent Broad Coverage of Geothermal Technical Issues
  

*by E***R on Reviewed in the United States on January 30, 2009*

I have been installing Water Furnace heat pumps for the past eight years.  When attending a software training class for integrated systems with geothermal, I found this book at the company.  While the author does present his own products as the primary references for systems, the concepts and application are very well explained.  From experience, the information is accurate and leading edge.  Not just theory, but practical applications from working in with the technology for decades.  While the theory may be beyond the DIY installer of geothermal (which I would not recommend anyway), it is accurate and highly relevant to the field today.  In the unlikely event that you wish to move heat from the barnyard to the house, I found fascinating (and true, I kid not), charts of how many BTUs per cow you can get in energy output for thermal collectors located in the stable.Highly recommend for your library.

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    Geothermal Heat Pumps - unfortunately all written in METRIC.
  

*by J***N on Reviewed in the United States on July 7, 2009*

I had been looking for a good reference book on geothermal heat pumps, where you can extract "heat" from the earth to heat your home. It's based on the same principal as refrigeration. Plastic water pipes are buried under the frost line (6-8 ft. down). An antifreeze solution is circulated thru the pipes back to the basement where a refrigeration unit extracts "heat" (BTUs) from the fluid.  The geothermal unit puts it into the home either as hot water or hot air.  Hot water can be fed thru heat exchangers like radiators & radiant heated floors.  Or hot air can be used in the house through a conventional system of ductwork.  The same system can do the reverse process in the summer, and cool the home.For every dollar of electricity you use to run the goethermal unit, your return in BTUs (heat) is 4x (400%) the energy you put into it.  The U.S. government will give homeowners a 30% tax credit for any installations that are "water-to-air" systems, installed beginning 1-1-09.  Another method is to use a private well, pump water from it at 50 F. into the refrigeration unit, extract "heat" from it, and return the same water back to the well at 42 F.  The chilled water is piped down to the bottom of say a 600 ft. well, and the pump picks up the water at 50 ft. from the surface.  So the chilled water has 1150 feet to move before it is picked up again by the pump.  By the time it reaches the pump it has heated up to 50 F. and the cycle runs continuously.  This book is very informative, but at $95. priced too high I feel, and unfortunately is written all in metric dimensions, metric formulas, metric heat concepts, so was impractical to apply to use in the United States. If the Border's Bookstore had included that vital "METRIC throughout"  comment in their review I would not have bought it.  There isn't much out on geothermal, so I ended up doing all of my research on the Internet.  We're installing a geothermal unit in our new home this summer.  You can buy it on Amazon.com for $77.59 if you speak METRIC. Geothermal Heat Pumps: A Guide for Planning and Installing

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    Not useful for DIY install
  

*by M***R on Reviewed in the United States on July 17, 2008*

I bought this book thinking it would be helpful with a geothermal heating system I was planning to install. The book appears to be no more than a translated product guide for various models of geothermal heat pumps that the author manufactures in Germany. There were some useful equations for various heat calculations but nothing really all that useful. I returned the book.

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