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What is a Ground
Source Heat Pump?"
A Ground Source Heat Pump is a heat pump that that uses wells or heat exchangers to transfer heat from water to the inside of a building. Most water source heat pumps use ground water and others may use water from lakes, creeks or streams.
For heating, a geothermal heat pump removes the heat from the fluid in the Earth connection, concentrates it, and then transfers it to the building. For cooling, the process is reversed.
Conventional ductwork is generally used to distribute heated or cooled air from Ground Source Heat Pumps throughout the building.
In addition to space conditioning, Ground Source Heat Pumps can be used to provide domestic hot water when the system is operating. Many residential systems are now equipped with desuperheaters that transfer excess heat from the Ground Source Heat Pumps compressor to the house's hot water tank. A desuperheater provides no hot water during the spring and fall when the Ground Source Heat Pumps is not operating; however, because Ground Source Heat Pumps are so much more efficient than other means of water heating, manufacturers are beginning to offer "full demand" systems that use a separate heat exchanger to meet all of a household's hot water needs. These units cost-effectively provide hot water as quickly as any competing system.
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