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The Heart of the Matter, here the heating installation in our basement machine room.
Past: the
old natural gas furnaces (left), Present: the new heat pump and
boiler (right) supplied with energy from a 220m deep geothermal well:
The History:
We're fortunate to be located just inside the
region where it is allowed to drill (not for oil, but for
sustainable geothermal energy). The state
here (Kanton Bern) has some very impressive and informative charts :
This is where the drilling for more energy
independence starts: In our backyard trail marked by the the
fluorescent dot:
Tomorrow (June 30 - 2008), the drilling crew will arrive armed with
heavy equipment to go deep (220m) into the Berne underground, brush
has been cleared, fence made removable, parking space allotted, and
everything is ready.
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