Great progress has been made in sustainable development, including improved technology for harnessing solar and wind energy. The use of these renewable energy sources has become widespread in industry and households as well as in leisure and tourism. However, there is another source of green energy within our reach that has not yet been exploited as widely: geothermal energy.
This is energy from the depths of the earth, available all year round regardless of the weather. This source of heat energy can be used to heat or cool rooms as well as swimming pool water. Geothermal energy can become an important ally of leisure and tourism projects, whether in hotels and resorts, campsites, water or theme parks, shopping centres or others.
The installation for the use of geothermal energy consists mainly of a closed circuit of pipes that connect, through a heat pump, the subsoil with the spaces to be air-conditioned. A cooling fluid circulates through the pipes, whose transformations of state enable heat transfer. The system can be used in both winter and summer, and its electricity consumption is low. So, geothermal energy is a sustainable alternative for the design and subsequent construction of sustainable facilities in hotels and resorts, campsites, water or theme parks, shopping centres or other spaces for leisure and tourism.
By Hernán Spaccesi, Project Manager in the Technical Department of Amusement Logic
