TerraLink in the News.
Architectural Residential Technologies (ART) Inc., a
Batavia company which markets energy-efficient building systems, has
been marketing its own "plug and play'' geothermal system called
TerraLink.
ART's TerraLink geothermal system is shipped to
customers totally self-contained. "It's pre-filled with an antifreeze,
so it literally can be hooked up with a compression fitting," Ruebel
said. Most competing systems are welded together once the tubing is in
the ground and then the system is filled and flushed to remove air from
the loops, he said. All that work adds to the cost.
"We've done all that beforehand,'' Ruebel said. Each
system is engineered to the size of the customer's home and the heating
and cooling need.
TerraLink typically costs about 40 percent less than
other geothermal systems, but that doesn't include the cost of digging
the trenches and duct work in the home, he said.
Architectural Residential Technologies (ART) Inc., a
Batavia company which markets energy-efficient building systems, has
been marketing its own "plug and play'' geothermal system called
TerraLink, mainly on eBay, for about 18 months.
Nick Ruebel, partner in ART with Mark Ross, who invented
the system, said total sales this year are expected to approach $2
million.
"For people heating with fuel oil, it's a natural
because the system can pay for itself in three years or less,'' Ruebel
said.
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