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focusonzenergy Wrote: Feb 23, 2013 5:25 PM
Always drill straight down to the water table at $12-$15 per foot.. Insure that you couple into the water tablemaking your GSHP the most efficient. Slinky tubes only 10 foot down are to much affected by the ambient outside air temperature making for less efficiency. 150ft of vertical loop per ton of cooling on a 15 ft square grid is good rule of thumb depending on soil conditions. The more vertical loop the higher the efficiency.. Heavily Insulate the top 15 foot of the vertical loop and its entry into the inside GSHP equipment. Your ground loop using modern pex tubing will outlive your homes 50 year life so yearly amortization is very low and significantly less than than your natural gas or electricity bill you would otherwise pay.

I just wrote a check this morning for my monthly power bill, made payable to American Electric Power (NYSE: AEP) in the amount of $260.02. 

I'm not alone. AEP serves five million residential and business customers in 11 states. 

Rain or shine, that's five million checks that pour in each month. They add up fast. AEP's utility segment collected $14 billion in revenue in 2011. But on closer inspection, the company only retained $2.8 billion in operating profits.

Where did the other $11 billion go?

Well, nearly half ($4.4 billion) was spent on...

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