Quarterly Newsletters

1-3&4 | Selling Geothermal

Ryan Green of Midwest Machinery Denver presents an overview of PACE financing including what it is and why it works so well for financing geothermal installations. Jay Egg of Egg Geothermal discusses selling geothermal as THE luxury comfort system. Kent Kuffner of Carrier Corp. offers three ways using design software improves your sales pitch. Our own Ryan Carda illustrates how geothermal provides greater peace of mind when it comes time to budgeting household expenses. Geothermal can change the world and Doug Carruthers offers some figures to help you pitching eco-minded consumers. Last but certainly not least, check out what we updated in geothermal savings estimator— LoopLink GSE.

1-2 | Get Pumped!

Connor Donovan of Melink GEO presents "Low Hanging Fruit- Mainstreaming Geothermal with Simpler Pumping". We have contributions from Geo-Flo's Jeff Hammond discussing how to avoid pump failures and a two part series on flow center types and the advantages/disadvantages of each. Our own Ryan Carda offers the pros and cons of distributed pumping systems versus centralized pumping systems. To round things out we have another article from Ryan covering the critical but often overlooked issue of water quality in GSHP applications.

1-1 | Thoughts on Vaults

Watch 'Burying Mistakes' this quarter's featured presentation from Lisa Meline about what happens when engineers trust but don't verify. Related to the presentation we have compiled articles from our GeoConnected blog that discuss the finer points of geothermal vault design, installation and whether or not they make sense for your application.

Guides to Download

How GSHP Work

Start with the basics with this easy to read introduction to the physics of heat pumps.

The Ground Connection

Learn about the different ground heat exchanger designs in use today.

Geothermal Dos & Don'ts

Handy reference for homeonwers, installers and designers to review.

ASHP vs. GSHP

Level the playing field when comparing ground source heat pumps to air source heat pumps.

Let Geo LEED The Way

Learn about LEED certification and how geothermal systems can be used to achieve LEED status.

Measure GSHP Efficiency

A DYIers guide to measuring the efficiency of forced air geothermal heat pumps.

EPA Space Conditioning

A thorough examination of the pros & cons of advanced residential space conditioning equipment.

Recent Articles

GeoConnected is the Geo-Connections company blog and it isn't just us tooting our own horn. Not every topic in geo requires a book to be written so we tackle smaller items on our blog. We also use the blog to keep everyone posted about changes to LoopLink RLC and LoopLink PRO.