The real confusion comes in when the term "heat pump" is used. You see, when most people hear the words (heat pump) being spoken, they picture some type of pump that's actually somehow pumping heat. In this case right out of the ground. Perhaps this is the picture that you have in your head.What's really going on is a mechanical process that involves the exchange of thermal energy, and you yourself have seen it in action many times already. For instance, perhaps you may have set your hand against the outside fins of an air conditioner and noticed that they're warm when it's running?The reason is that when Freon is pressurized it gets hot and needs to be cooled so it's ran through the outside fins to cool before being directed back into the home. When the Freon is decompressed, the opposite happens. It becomes cold, and when it's ran through the inside grill it's then used to cool a home.

So you can think of a ground source heat pump as a larger and more complex heating and cooling unit that simply has no outside cooling grid. Instead that grid is made up of a series of pipes that are run below the ground and even in a pond if you have one on your grounds.So then why underground or in a water pond? The answer is simple and that is that the ground or the water do a far more efficient job of transferring away the energy. Try it yourself by heating up two spoons on your stove, quench one in water, and blow on the other one. Of course the spoon in the water is cooled immediately.Myriad Econic design, supply & installwater source, air source and Ground Source Heat Pumps for a range of clients in different industry sectors across the UK.

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