Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning system and method
AssigneeGeoFlo Cooling, Inc.
InventorDamien Semel-DeFeo
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Abstract
The present disclosure proposes a method for when the Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) is called for by a thermostat, the GeoFlo HVAC System first exhausts a heat sink in the basement, before calling for an evaporator to be activated. When the heat sink in the basement is cooling the conditioned space, by geothermally dispersing heat into the earth, the GeoFlo HVAC turns off the evaporator. Alternatively, the system acts as a substitute for an AC evaporator. Variations of the GeoFlo HVAC system and a control box designed to move heat from one area of a building to another using the existing HVAC system are also disclosed.
Claims5
An heating and air conditioning system having a computing or wiring based control system, comprising:
- one or more thermostats, configured to sense a temperature at a location of the thermostat in a building, and to sense a temperature in a basement of the building;
- a main return duct;
- a basement supply duct and a basement return duct, each connected on one end to said main return duct, and each opening on another end to said basement;
- a solar panel for heating water or array of solar panels for heating water;
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- dampers for controlling air flow through said main return duct, said basement supply duct, and said basement return duct.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.