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Huh. I lived in the Bay Area, in apartments that under this system would be classed as flats, for six years, and I never heard them referred to as flats- they were always called apartments.
I could see a management company for an apartment complex calling the units flats, though. British English does have a certain cachet in the US, and I could see an apartment management company calling their units flats to make them sound more British and therefore classier.
I learned something here. I thought geothermal heating was heating using natural hot springs and things like that, so it could only be done in places like Iceland and Hawaii.
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Oh no! Not at all. It uses the heat generated by the tepid temperature of the earth itself. Check out the link a couple posts up in my post…Those describe the process. It’s ingenius really, and not really cost prohibative.
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