As kids, we were told, “Don’t play with matches.” The reasoning was simple. But, as adults, we ignore this warning and play with fire to heat our homes and office buildings, and our laws and policies encourage it. It doesn’t have to be that way.
It’s my opinion that we need to create paths to safer, cleaner, and more efficient energy sources to satisfy the thermal loads of buildings and geothermal heat pumps (GHPs) are the answer.