{"id":79219,"date":"2018-06-01T07:22:37","date_gmt":"2018-06-01T14:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/dandelion-wants-to-play-a-role-in-home-geothermal"},"modified":"2018-06-01T07:22:37","modified_gmt":"2018-06-01T14:22:37","slug":"dandelion-wants-to-play-a-role-in-home-geothermal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/dandelion-wants-to-play-a-role-in-home-geothermal","title":{"rendered":"Dandelion wants to play a role in home geothermal"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a><\/p>\n

Not familiar with residential geothermal heating? No surprise. Chris Martin in Bloomberg explained that \u201cResidential geothermal heating is uncommon, in part because the expense and effort to dig the wells make them costly to install in existing homes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dandelion CEO Kathy Hannun told CNNMoney<\/i> that \u201cIt\u2019s a very niche technology<\/a> that hasn\u2019t taken off at all in this country.\u201d Her Brooklyn-based company, Dandelion, is out there to make geothermal heating\u2014extracting underground heat<\/a> to keep homes warm\u2014 more affordable for homeowners.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, Dandelion launched the Dandelion Air as a home<\/a> heating and air conditioning<\/a> system. Dandelion\u2019s claims: it\u2019s 4 times more efficient than any furnace on the market and almost twice as efficient as a conventional air conditioning system. So, when you go up to Dandelion\u2019s web site there is one sole message and it reads loud and clear. \u201cGeothermal heating and air conditioning so efficient it pays for itself.\u201d<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not familiar with residential geothermal heating? No surprise. Chris Martin in Bloomberg explained that \u201cResidential geothermal heating is uncommon, in part because the expense and effort to dig the wells make them costly to install in existing homes.\u201d Dandelion CEO Kathy Hannun told CNNMoney that \u201cIt\u2019s a very niche technology that hasn\u2019t taken off at [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}