Friday, January 4, 2013

From the ground...down (part 3)



Some people might think that we’ve already talked about this topic enough, but we know better. 

In the last two posts, we talked about how temperature fluctuations at the surface of the ground might affect the underground temperature, and specifically, how deeply those fluctuations might penetrate.

So, now imagine that there might be an application where it wasn’t the surface temperature nor the ground temperature that mattered, but the difference between the two.   (This actually is important for certain applications that propose to use that temperature difference to generate small amounts of electricity).