Geothermal heating is rising in popularity as a home heating option. Heat pumps work by extracting heat from the moist soil around them. The warmer the soil, the more heat the unit can extract and use for heating homes.
Septic tanks collect wastewater that is sent into them from homes. In the winter months, this water is warmer than the ground the tank sits in, which can sufficiently keep the entire tank warmer than the surrounding soil.Asking the questionThese two realities prompted Karen Shakespeare Kokkelink (M.Eng, P.E.) to wonder, would installing a ground-source heat pump adjacent to a buried septic tank
