It’s an excellent venture amidst growing concerns over soaring heating bills — a geothermally heated townhouse. This is all what was happening in lower Manhattan for awhile now. The house has just gone on sale – at a whopping $7.8 million!
As the World Street Journal reports, the house is five-storied and it stands in TriBeCa, a few blocks north of the World Trade Center site. The factor that catapulted the townhouse in the headlines of newspapers is – it uses an unusual geothermal energy system to provide heating, cooling and hot water.
Pipes from the house runs deep down the earth’s 1,400 feet into the crust — where the temperature is always about 52 degrees. These pipes transfer energy to the house. The hose has two-layer-thick concrete exterior walls, filled with thermal materials, which trap the energy and distribute it. Even all the floors also have radiant heating systems.
The HVAC technology and geothermal energy systems have evolved over the years to strengthen it further with newer capabilities and heat pump terminologies.
Via: Inhabitat
