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I picture a world where everything in the house runs off a single heat pump, and heat gets diverted from your A/C into your water heater and clothes dryer.
Geothermal systems can do that for water heaters, AC, and heat, so... They kinda already do that.
Geothermal doesn't really work great in many situations for a lot of different reasons. That's why heat pumps exist.
They might mean ground source heat pumps?