{"id":2485,"date":"2006-08-08T08:41:27","date_gmt":"2006-08-08T08:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2485"},"modified":"2006-08-08T08:41:27","modified_gmt":"2006-08-08T08:41:27","slug":"the_case_for_ge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2485","title":{"rendered":"The Case for Geothermal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gladwell.typepad.com\/gladwellcom\/2006\/08\/the_case_for_ge.html\">Malcolm Gladwell<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Geothermal heating and cooling is based on one simple fact: that 6 feet down in the ground the temperature is the same&mdash;between 50&#730;F and 60&#730;F- the whole year round. This means that it is relatively cool in the summer, and relatively warm in the winter. Geothermal heating is thus quite different from solar heating: solar heating works worst when you most need it&#8211;in the cold, cloudy, snowy conditions of winter; the source for geothermal heating and cooling is not affected by the weather.<\/p>\n<p>For geothermal cooling, all one needs to do is to circulate water in a pipe through the ground to cool it, and use this cool water to cool the air pumped through the house in the heating ducts.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malcolm Gladwell: Geothermal heating and cooling is based on one simple fact: that 6 feet down in the ground the temperature is the same&mdash;between 50&#730;F and 60&#730;F- the whole year round. This means that it is relatively cool in the summer, and relatively warm in the winter. Geothermal heating is thus quite different from solar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2485"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}