I am doing a project and talking about geothermal heating and cooling for a home. I need to know if a geothermal system is a renewable energy system and why or why not. PLEASE HELP ME!!! Thank You.
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Geothermal captures the heat of the Earth or makes use of the fact that earth is an insulator.
Non renewable energy comes from a source that uses combustion to burn a fuel to create heat. Renewable sources of energy do not require fuel. Wind,solar and tidal are renewable. Geothermal is renewable if the energy obtained is greater than the energy used to capture it. This depends on the system. The geothermal heat pump often used in home applications is not very efficient. This is a tough call because it is right on the edge. The economics, indicate it is not. If it were, you would see a lot more people using this form of heating/cooling