Posts Tagged ‘sustainable’
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Final blog for sustainability of Florida’s aquifers
This marks the end of a seven part series discussing sustainibility of Florida's aquifers for geo-thermal heating and cooling. Geo-thermal cooling in Florida will never be fully sustainable in the sense that solar is. But looking forward in time at Florida's aquifers-will years of increased geothermally engineered and constructed air conditioning and heating systems disrupt the aquifers? Having covered other aspects already (like heating the aquifers up through time), the only thing left I could find is comparing geothermal cooling to cooling towers. Cooling towers pump surprising amounts of water from the aquifer and evaporate most of it. What isn't evaporated represents a refined concentrate of eroded metals, slime, bacteria, minerals, and badly needed water treatment chemicals. This remaining water winds up back in the aquifer. By comparison; using a closed loop for the chiller's condensor pumps and dumps equal amounts of water into the aquifer. The water dumped back down into the aquifer is an equal amount of water to what is drawn out. There currently is some metal contact in the process, yes, this is comparable to cooling towers. Since geothermal can use less energy that cooling towers systems during peak conditions ...
