Work continues on Towson University’s project to integrate geothermal energy as a renewable energy source to heat and cool ...

A project underway in New Haven shows the potential of the system, which harnesses heat beneath the earth. But it's not ...

Geothermal energy is a type of renewable energy that uses accessible thermal energy deep underground, extracting the heat from geothermal reservoirs in the Earth’s crust. Since the heat from the Earth ...

After reviewing basic design options, the next steps for potential geothermal designers are to challenge the common concerns and myths, study how different choices have different cost impacts, and be ...

University drilling 200 holes to increase heating and cooling capacity by 50 percent ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Forget the days of separate furnaces and AC units hogging space and energy. Geothermal heating and cooling systems are ...

In June 2011, the geothermal (earth-coupled) heating and cooling system started to fail in the emergency operations center for Sussex County, Delaware, even though the $13 million building had only ...

For years, the buzzwords on the lips of environmental advocates have been geothermal energy, as in energy pumped from deep within the Earth’s aquifers to be used for heating, cooling and electricity ...

Since they came out of the forest, our ancestors must have looked up to the skies for warm sunlight and cooling breezes. A few, looking down at natural steam vents and hot springs, found themselves ...

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo.—The discussions started roughly a decade ago, when an account manager at Xcel Energy, the electricity and gas utility provider, expressed confusion, officials at Colorado Mesa ...