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I know of one installation of a ground source heat pump here in Alaska using radiant floor heating. Circulates glycol thru a network of pipes laid below ground to the cold side of the heat pump. The hot side circulates into a water storage tank and thru the radiant floor loop. But they also have a supplemental gas-fired boiler. The downside of ground source heat pumps in really cold climates is that you essentialy have to freeze the already frozen ground to get any significant heat out of it. That is unless you have a really deep source like the wells that Richard mentions.
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