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Written by Administrator
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Monday, 09 August 2004 |
Geothermal Heat Saving Money 
Contractors at a Minot hotel are drilling a pipeline to the future.
Workers have been installing pipes at the International Inn that will form a geothermal heating and cooling system.
The hotel's administrators say the goal is to try to lower fuel costs.
Geothermal wells outside the hotel will regulate the temperature in only one part of the building for now. If it works, the administrators will look at using geothermal sources throughout the hotel.
The geothermal system relies primarily on water and the warmth of the earth.
To heat the International Inn through the winter months -- water will be run down through loops about 150 feet underground, where the warmth of the earth will heat it.
The water will then go back into the hotel and be released into a heat pump, which will send vapor through the building.
Engineer Rick Kleven says his company, I-B-A Drilling, has worked on about 50 such systems over the past two years. He says one also is planned at a new vocational addition in Minot.
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Last Updated ( Friday, 30 September 2005 )
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