When it comes to CEO of co2 emissions, homes pollute way more than current model cars. Do we have all these things like catalytic converters and all these things that make gas burning vehicles I'm, not saying that they're great I'm, just saying that they're, the emissions are not nearly as bad as homes are so anyway, so geothermal technology? What is it and how does it work?

It's actually a like solar, it's indirect, solar, the Sun heats the earth, we're pulling heat from the earth, we're using that heat, the mild temperatures that are deep in the earth to heat and cool the home. So here in this part of the world, we have a deep earth temperature of about 55 to 57 degrees, and we can take that heat and we can ramp it up in the wintertime to heat your home and we can reject heat into that ground in the summertime.

So you cool your home, and so you can see here in that slide that the the slides are fast. Yeah I'm not used to this thing. So so anyway. So it's a heat source in the winter time and, like I, said in this slide here, they're showing 45 to 55, which is average around the world here in this part of the country like I, said it's 55 to 57 degrees and by way of a refrigeration circuit, we're ramping that heat up to heat your home and keep it at 70 degrees.

On the opposite side of that, we have a reversing valve and we take that same 55 to 57 degrees and with the refrigeration circuit works much in the same way as a refrigerator does we're using it to make cooler temperatures and and air conditioning your home. So by generally speaking, we do this with a closed-loop system of piping that is buried in the ground. There's many ways to do this.

This is always something that's available to you, no matter what, where you live, there's always a way to make this happen, but we're circulating water and antifreeze mixture through these pipes out in the ground, so we're making the property that you just work for you, instead of just mowing that ground you're actually getting some good out of it. And so what you see here is a typical geothermal heat pump, this unit, guys heating and cooling, and it also as a byproduct, does domestic hot water, so closed-loop systems like I, said: there's many different forms.

You've got horizontal loops, vertical loops, Pond loops, if that's on your property, that there can also be open loop systems where you're using ground water that you're circulating through the unit, and so it's like having your own energy, well on your own property that you've purchased and you're, making that property work for you, so instead of heating, your home purely with whether it's all-electric or some type of fossil fuel, whether it's propane or natural gas, in this condition here with geothermal we're using the heat from the ground and one or two parts of electricity.

This is not a new technology. It's been around. You can see here this life magazine, article was October 25th and 1948. They called the fireless furnace. This has been around a very long time. It's not witchcraft. It's not it's! It's honestly! It's it's really simple. The way it operates so applications for geothermal is really any space that needs to be heated or cooled. It can be forced there. It can be heating water. You can do radiant floors, any type of heating or cooling system that you've seen or heard about.

That's a boiler furnace air conditioner we can do with geothermal, so a lot of the benefits of geothermal, of course, are the the cost savings from getting rid of fossil fuels, especially if you're on LP. Anyone in here that is on LP knows how drastically those prices can change. But, of course the the the green side of this is. You know no different than the cool Tesla's getting getting rid of the the CO emissions coming out of your home and going all-electric in in today's world.

It's all about the electrification of everything our daily lives, whether it be cars or our homes, and so the graphs that you've seen pretty much from everyone here tonight show that heating, cooling and making hot water is the biggest expenses that you have in your home, and so by making your land work for you and using what effectively is solar energy? That's just stored in the earth? You can save a lot of money and you can reduce a tremendous amount of greenhouse gases.

You know, and so heating and cooling with geothermal is not only has a huge impact on the environment, but it also has a huge impact on your energy costs. So now that I'm not even really looking at any of these so-so residential energy use, these these graphs are very similar to what you're going to see from the Power Company heating, cooling and making hot water are the largest percentage of what you pay.

For you know, in your monthly power bill and by going to to a geothermal system, you end up with getting a lot of that heat straight from the ground, and so it just lowers your energy cost. You can also do things like adding insulation, and you know improving, and any of those improvements are worthwhile and worth doing.

Geothermal is something that, generally speaking, is a large investment.

However, it also comes with there's a lot of benefits: that's free, renewable energy, its quiet operation, there's no outdoor equipment, it's all electric, you don't have any gas in the home at all: increased comfort levels, more revived, more reliable equipment, there's less maintenance, and you do not have air conditioners sitting out back where you want to spend time and hang out when the weather is good, mmm so geothermal heat pumps can run off renewable energy sources just like the the cool Tesla's, because the system is all electric.

You know, as we get more and more involved with renewable energy sources, and we use that to power our homes. There may have been one more car.