Geothermal heating and cooling is an electric based technology using a ground source heat pump that moves FREE solar energy from the earth to a home or business, heating the building during the winter and in reverse moves energy, in the form of heat, from the building during the summer which cools the building and stores the energy, for the next heating season, using the earth as a battery. The energy moved to and from the earth is achieved using pipes in the ground with a water-antifreeze mixture in the ground loop (aka heat exchanger, horizontal loop field, or vertical bore hole).
