GET UNDER MY LAWN: Drill rigs like this one can operate at 8 feet and — paired with an operator trained specifically for the job — can suffice for many residential geothermal direct exchange projects.

When Terri was looking to downsize from her home in Austin, Texas, she discovered Whisper Valley – a sustainable, net-zero capable planned community under development just 20 minutes east of downtown.

“The geothermal ground loop bore field permitting process has been described as a regulatory quagmire. This law changes the way the CEC interacts with the geothermal industry and is intended to ...

Interest is growing in fracking techniques pioneered by the oil and gas industry for use in tapping the earth’s crust for ...

Geothermal can slash HVAC energy use while also saving grid ... In the winter, it absorbs heat to warm it. Installing the ground loop, as the underground piping is called, represents around 30% of the ...

The Railroad Commission of Texas has finalized regulations that provide robust and streamlined permitting requirements for ...

On a rainy spring day, a drill rig punched hundreds of feet into the earth, spilling muddy water out onto a dirt lot at the University of Louisville, where a new engineering school will soon stand.

Open loop systems refer to another type of geothermal system where water is pumped out of the ground, run, through the geothermal heat pump, and then dumped back into a nearby body of water (like a ...

Which makes this Eavor-Loop technology a bit of a unicorn. Essentially it's a low-enthalpy geothermal station that sends fluid through a sealed loop in a way that self-perpetuates without adding any ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW — Dandelion aims to save you money while helping to save the planet. The company, spun off into its own business from Google’s experimental “X” unit for so-called “moonshots,” sells ...

A geothermal company has landed a USD 38 million investment to deploy its new giant underground heat pump to harvest clean ...

Millions of US citizens still use oil and natural gas to heat their homes during the winter. Many would like to switch to geothermal, a cleaner and ultimately cheaper system that leverages the natural ...