Home and Garden Articles
posted on 26 January 2012
While I've tinkered with my home's interior - buying folding dining tables to save on space, keeping its colour scheme fresh and inviting etc, there's a bigger job at hand. If I had the budget to do so, I would try and make my home more energy efficient by adding instant hot water heaters to one or two locations in the house. This would make the home more energy efficient by not having to turn the hot water on and letting good, useful cold water run down the draing while waiting for the hot water to make it's way from the hot water heater. We have already gotten rid of our standard water heater and replaced it with a tankless water heater, but this would make the home even more energy efficient. Unfortunately, it would be more wasteful in the sense that we would now be using electricity to heat the water in the instant hot water components which is a highly inefficient way of using power, but I suspect that when you compare the slightly higher electrical use with the cost of water in our town (very high!) there would be a net increase in the efficiency with a corresponding reduction in net cost. I would probably do well to do further research into this project. Another problem is that it is my understanding that such on-demand hot water heaters have a high failure rate and need replacement after only a few years' use. Not a good thing. |
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