At sweltering Southwest Georgia military bases, pioneering a cleaner cooling system

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March 9th, 2022

Assistant Secretary of the Navy witnesses base energy program fi
During installation of the geothermal heat pump at Marine Corps Logistics Base Albany, then-Assistant Secretary of the Navy, the Honorable Dennis V. McGinn (center), Energy, Installations and Environment, tours the ground source heat pump project area with Charles W. Hammock Jr., vice president, Andrews, Hammock and Powell, INC. The project is a borehole thermal energy storage system which is a state-of-the-art ground source heat pump system for heating and cooling Building 3700, the Marine Corps Logistics Command headquarters building. (Source: MCLB Albany, photo by Nathan L. Hanks Jr.)

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Georgia is really hot for a lot of the year, and expected to get hotter as climate change worsens. 

That means air conditioners fight an uphill battle here, trying to get sweltering air from the 80s, 90s or even over 100 degrees down to something liveable. 

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