With today's high petrol prices it is time to look for new alternative ways for our heating.

Geothermia or Geothermal heating is one of those new ways to explore because there is unlimited energy into the earth or the air which we can use for our heating.

Sweden after 30-35 years in experimenting with the direct heat absorption (DX) system, now changes all the old ones (Oil & diesel) systems to the new Geothermal ones, based on the known Heat pump which is used by the air conditions and refrigerators with the only difference that it is more economical that the air conditions by 30-60%.

The initial purchase cost & installation might seen at first look a little higher than the conventional system of diesel burner but the running economy and cleanliness in the use and without the yearly maintenance which is required on the diesel burner will be recovered in 5-6 years.

The geothermic or geothermal systems of heating from Sweden are:

• Ecological
• Economical in use
• Without yearly maintenance
• Return of initial extra capital from the difference in price of diesel/oil in 5-6 years
• Tried & tested in Sweden for more than 30 years
• One (1) year guarantee
  
  
  Test case: A Sirius S2-5 DX system installed in 2003 in Corfu on a 172 sq.m house & loft of 65 sq.m with 5.3 m roof height and underfloor piping for the heating.
• An electricity meter was installed & the yearly consumption turned to be 6.000 Kwh which equals about € 720 per annum for heating & hot water the whole year.
• The heating is enough with average inside temperature of 19-22 Degrees.
• DIESEL TO HEAT PUMP COMPARISSON
  

• 1000 LT of diesel = 10.000 Kwh with a loss of 25 % you effectively get 7500 Kwh	7Kw heat pump will effectivelly use 1666 Kwh to produce the same heat.
  1000 lt diesel = € 600	1666 Kwh = € 200
  Saving per year = € 400 per 1000 lt diesel 5 years = € 2000 10 years = € 4000