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Tom;
The water from the well should be at ground temperature, therefore no heat savings from the basement.
I have a ground based heat pump which is hooked to an unheated 50 gal second tank. The heat pump heats the water to 120 when it is running. I like this system.
I built a heat exchanger quite cheaply using the stainless steel flexible connectors and PVC pipe. I can heat the pool using the outside wood burning stove and the exchanger.
Your problem is the heat source.

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In the geothermal system the cost of heating and cooling a 4000 sq ft house and providing hot water is approximately 50$ per month. With a conventional system the cost for hot water is 50$ and at least another 100$ per month to heat and cool. It cost me approximately 3.5 K extra not counting my time, therefore the payback is 3 years.
The crux is I am down to needed less than 700 watt hours. At current prices it would cost me about 10K for solar panels to disconnect from the grid. Now if the cost of the panels can just decrease to make it pay back in 3-5 years!!!

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One of the small things that you can do to improve efficiency is to have the hot water water inlet exchange with the outlet on the shower.
Although I ran the house in PEX (crosslinked polyethylene) we spliced in a coil of copper around the shower drain pipe. This allows the inlet water to pick up some of the waste heat flowing out of the shower.
Naturally this requires two this, access to the shower drain in the basement and constant use of the shower.

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