At 12:06 PM 1/27/2008 -0500, you wrote: >I haven't encountered info about these waterheaters in decades and in >those days they were viewed as being installed right at the place of >use, so that a regular northamerican house would need several. That >would, of course, have eliminated the lag in hot watter arriving, too. >What are the considerations that make the whole-house on-demand heaters >preferable?
Dear Andrejs and Friends--Initial cost is 3-4 times higher than a standard water heater, but the energy savings is advertised to be 50 percent less the standard water heater. So first costs would be made up in a few years, at least at the rate I am paying for hot water with natural gas from NYSEG. It seems that whole house systems are more prevalent in the US and that several smaller point-of-use systems are used in Europe? I would suspect that in my Victorian era house that installing several point-of-use systems would be prohibitively expensive compared to one whole house system. Maybe this is not the case in new construction? Tom Tom Shelley 118 E. Court St. Ithaca, NY 14850 607 342-0864 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.myspace.com/99319958 P I thank you for printing this e-mail only if it is necessary "Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs." The World Commission on Environment and Development, Gro Harlem Brundtland Our Common Future, Oxford University Press, 1987 MY NOTE: Sustainable development does not mean "sustainable growth" as growth per se is not sustainable. And the term "sustainable" has to mean "for a very long time" (A. Bartlett). "The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives." Sioux proverb _______________________________________________ RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: [email protected] http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org
