@MrCoryjohnson1 It probably wouldn't affect anything too much. The amount of heat being dropped 6 feet into the ground is minuscule in comparison to the total sinking ability of the Earth as a whole. However, if this was done in every house in a densely populated neighborhood, the holes may need to be deeper to have the same affect since the earth immediately surrounding the GT circuit would be made warmer/cooler by neighboring systems..

I wonder what the effect of heating the ground will be when this becomes more popular.

It's actually not 100% non-polluting, it's 70% less polluting, but still good.

the last point is very untrue....sins it runs on electricity its does polute as most forms of electrical production is poluting....but to a lesser degree of coarse.. but it untrue to say its does not polute at all..If you know 100% your electricity comes from water, wind or solar then its true...

I just installed the new GE hot water heat pump and it is incredible...it dehumidifies and cools my basement while heating the hot water using half the energy of a regular electric hot water heater...It helped make my home a net-zero solar powered home....

The heat in the ground is transferred to the liquid solution inside the piping, usually the piping is of high grade plastic or polyethylene pipe and the heat is transferred through the pipe to the liquid without the use of any other underground hardware. The heat pump is located inside the home and circulates the "water" within the pipes. It is just as easy to do this in a new home as it is an existing, the same process is usually followed for vertical loops, a heat pump replaces your furnace.

"Can an already existing home be converted? "Yeah, there are vertical systems where you dig something like a well in your garden and drop them down it.

great animation. how is the heat absorbed into the pipes underground? is there some sort of fan system or is it a natural process? Also, this seems to be something that is possible only with new build homes. Can an already existing home be converted?

Please they've changed there positions on what Global Warming's going to do so many times it makes me laugh. It's a total bogus hoax. I mean if you look at all the times they've being wrong and the history of the theory than you'll realize it.

If you weren't a complete and total retard you would know that global warming is no theory, and Al Gore did not invent the idea FYI. There is a period of global cooling caused by the de-salination of the oceans caused by the melting of polar ice caps, even though you decide to not listen to reason this is not some wild theory. Who would have thought that the movie "The Day After Tomorrow" would actually have some sort of truth to it.