Hot Springs Hotel has recently taken advantage of the geothermal energy smothering the hotel property by using a heat energy substitution appendage to furnish hot water for all hotel prerequisites conceived to be a first for Fiji. After much tanoa talanoa, (words) it was decided something must be done to tackle this wasted resource, and [...]
One type of heating system that is starting to gain popularity in home construction, is the installation of geothermal heat pumps (also called GeoExchange, earth-coupled, ground source or water-source heat pump). Basically this system replaces all fuel-fed furnaces and air conditioners by having a pump buried deep in the ground. The pump circulates hot and [...]
A Geothermal Heat Pump (GHP) is an apparatus that extracts heat from below the surface of earth. It works on the principle that heat flows from higher temperature substances to lower temperature substances via conduction or via convection (air currents). Geothermal Heat Pumps take in heat from the earth or water bodies to provide space [...]
