“It’s so simple, it’s embarrassing,” says Paul Jewison, general manager of Textile Care Services (TCS). He’s talking about a new geothermal cooling system he is installing to provide relief for employees as summer heat bears down on the 125,000-square-foot plant in Rochester, MN. “I can guarantee it will make employees happy and save energy.”
 
Not to mention a $25,000 annual reduction in TCS’ electric bill. No wonder he calls it a “slam dunk.”
 
Geothermal cooling systems operate via subsurface conductive heat transfer using the naturally renewable temperature of the earth’s crust. Which leads to ...