by Jocelyn
Throughout the span of two years, there is going to be renovation going on at DRES. In the soccer field, there is a geothermal family run business called Easterday Well and Pump Inc. that is drilling holes into the ground so they can install the new system for our school. A system is what type of energy source we have. The people in the soccer field are working to install a geothermal energy system. For geothermal systems there are thing called loop fields. Loop fields are how the pipes are set in the ground. There are two types of loop fields. There are two pipes that go right next to each other in the loop fields.Part of the geothermal energy process is having the pipes filled with a type of refrigerant to keep the water from freezing. The pipes are connected at the top to make circuits. The air is circulated through the school and then goes through the circuit. The fluids make the air either warmer or colder depending on what season it is. One of the pipes is in and the other pipe is out. The worker fuse the pipes together by heating the pipes to melting temperature then put the two pipes together. They are drilling 104 holes that are 600 ft. deep. Because our soccer field is not big enough for the horizontal loop field we have a vertical loop field. It is very rare that they have to drill 600 ft holes because most facilities do not need as much power as our school. There are many different branches involved in the installation of geothermal energy for our school. There are a total of 40 people working on this job but just a small group of people at a time.Our soccer field will be back to normal by next school year. We will never be able to notice that they drilled holes in our field.
Throughout the span of two years, there is going to be renovation going on at DRES. In the soccer field, there is a geothermal family run business called Easterday Well and Pump Inc. that is drilling holes into the ground so they can install the new system for our school. A system is what type of energy source we have. The people in the soccer field are working to install a geothermal energy system. For geothermal systems there are thing called loop fields. Loop fields are how the pipes are set in the ground. There are two types of loop fields. There are two pipes that go right next to each other in the loop fields.Part of the geothermal energy process is having the pipes filled with a type of refrigerant to keep the water from freezing. The pipes are connected at the top to make circuits. The air is circulated through the school and then goes through the circuit. The fluids make the air either warmer or colder depending on what season it is. One of the pipes is in and the other pipe is out. The worker fuse the pipes together by heating the pipes to melting temperature then put the two pipes together. They are drilling 104 holes that are 600 ft. deep. Because our soccer field is not big enough for the horizontal loop field we have a vertical loop field. It is very rare that they have to drill 600 ft holes because most facilities do not need as much power as our school. There are many different branches involved in the installation of geothermal energy for our school. There are a total of 40 people working on this job but just a small group of people at a time.Our soccer field will be back to normal by next school year. We will never be able to notice that they drilled holes in our field.