A sealed well direct expansion geothermal heat exchange unit, whose sealed
well can be placed in ground and/or in water, consisting of a
conventional direct expansion, or other heat pump, system wherein the
exterior refrigerant heat exchange lines are placed within an insulated
and sealed container, which container is supplied with a circulating heat
conductive liquid from and to a sub-surface sealed well encasement, which
container liquid may be supplemented with heat from a solar heating
system, and which unit's hot refrigerant vapor line may be supplementary
cooled by means of condensate water evaporative cooling, as well as a
means to provide any direct expansion, and any closed-loop water-source,
geothermal heat pump system with an optional solar heating supplement in
the heating mode, and with an optional water-cooled vapor line supplement
in the cooling mode.