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Ron Tolmie is a physicist who lives in Ontario and he has a unique way of heating and cooling his home. Tolmie uses a system that utilizes stored summer air. He has named it the Atmospheric Energy Street System, and it captures the heated air from the summertime and directs it below ground via pipes used for heat injection. The hot air is collected was gradually below ground. And this will eat it once more, it is then drawn upon when it is required by using boreholes free exchange that have been pierced through the ground. This below ground unit is linked with a heat pump, which not only serves to heat his home, but in the summer months it acts like an air conditioning unit.

Tolmie says it is less expensive and much simpler than a regular system is. There is no generation of greenhouse gas of any kind since the energy comes from the heat in the surrounding air. Prior to launching his own business, Tolmie worked as a physicist for Atomic Energy, Ltd.

Tolmie’s heating unit operates in a similar manner as geothermal energy heating systems work or like a commercial ground source heat pump. Geothermal systems use the heating procedure that will draw heat energy from below ground and circulate it to the home. The ground, geothermal unit consisting of all the ethylene pipes, which loop through the ground, draws heat from within the soil that lies below the frost line, where the temperature is always maintained at an average temperature. [It acts as an air conditioner by returning heated air through the pipes back into the earth]. Heat is now transported through the ground piping unit and into the furnace of the home. The heat makes it to the furnace unit, and then by using a grouping of blower fans and duct work, it enters and heats your home.

Tolmie’s AE Street unit is only a one up a few exciting new energy technologies that offer amazing possibilities that save homeowners some extra money, while at the same time, decreasing the carbon discharge from residential living units. Another technology is the smart grid home energy metering, which allows buyers of power to decrease their energy rates.

Experts in renewable energy resources can see the potential in Tolmie’s heating unit. President of St. Lawrence College and a member of the world wind energy Institute, Volker Thomsen sample the model of Tolmie’s heating unit. In his own home, Thompson’s end game is to eradicate all greenhouse gas discharges from his residence.

Thomsen has decreased the cost of heating and cooling his home since using Tolmie’s unique system, his energy bills for his 373 m² residence had been reduced from $6,000 down to below $1000 annually.

Ron Tolmie’s forecasts actually worked out, stated Thompson, and he says he has no qualms stating that Tolmie’s heating device will be the system of choice and used throughout the province of Ontario.

Tolmie’s heating system comes with some conditions such as it is best used in homes and buildings constructed over bedrock with little underground water. Tolmie says the ground needs to be adequate so that it can warehouse the heat. He says that his heating unit will operate at optimal efficiency when it is connected amid homes and multiuse outbuildings.

A huge office complex that houses various types of electronics and equipment will be able to generate its own heat to supplement what comes from the building were as a residential family unit will always require more heat in the winter months.

Tolmie, as his fingers crossed that the government will show some attention to his innovative heating system, but he is pragmatic, and even though the government provincially has committed to reducing carbon emissions dramatically, he understands their interest may not be as keen as he hopes.

Tolmie says that with this type of technology, it becomes far more effectual when it is administered at the city level. And therein lies the problems for Tolmie, cities by their nature are reluctant to lead the way in innovation.