I take a lot of small precautions to minimize our carbon footprint.
I take the time to recycle plastics, paper, glass, paper, cardboard as well as metal cans. I use reusable bags at the grocery store, turn out the lights when I leave the room as well as compost our food waste. Although heating as well as cooling systems have become way more energy efficient recently, they still have a large effect on the environment… Most heating units use fossil fuels to generate heat, creating dangerous greenhouse gasses. While s have switched from Freon to Puron refrigerant, there’s still ozone depleting properties. You need energy to operate the oil furnace, boiler, heat pump or I felt it was worth it to spend a little extra for a geothermal heat pump. This type of idea makes use of the free as well as 100% renewable energy source found right in our own backyard. The earth absorbs solar energy as well as the underground geothermal temperature remains constant just about year round. A geothermal heat pump includes an underground loop idea that takes fortune of free heat energy; Rather than creating new heat, the heat pump moves existing heat between the apartment as well as the ground. In the Winter months, it pulls heat out of the ground as well as pumps it into the home, but during the warmer times of year, the heat pump pulls heat out of the indoor air to create a cooling effect. This process truly creates nearly four times the energy it consumes, making the idea nearly 400% energy efficient, then geothermal temperature control is also completely safe, beautifully quiet as well as impeccably clean. With the addition of a easy valve, the heat pump also generates a virtually free source of sizzling hot water. Although the geothermal heat pump was way more luxurious than a conventional heating as well as a cooling system, the savings on our energy bills has recovered the investment in under two years.