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Re: has anybody compiled a list of rapid return energy saving measures?
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| Info@_RemoveBetweenSpaces_RedyTemp.com 2005-08-07, 3:21 pm |
| Hot Water Savings
The key to hot water savings... eliminate the waiting.
Every second a person spends waiting for hot water at their faucet /
shower, your water heater is taking in "cold" city water. In addition
to the lighting energy used while the person stands there waiting. A
family of four waiting 1 minute for hot water spends around 97.3 hours
every year "waiting". (Four people waiting 4 times per day, 365 days
in a year, divided by 60 for total hrs) Include a lifestyle fudge
factor and reduce it to 72 hours of "very cold" city water filling up
your water heater needlessly. Let's pause for a moment and imagine
having to stand and watch a faucet waste water down the drain for 72
hrs. . . . Or consider a home which waits only 30 seconds.... that's
still 36 hours of watching water run down the drain.
Install a RedyTemp Hot Water Recirculator, no dedicated return line
required, idiot proof 10 minute "self-install".
Behind the timer is a standard 3-prong wall outlet. Simply replace
the timer with "The Clapper" set the clapper to the "away" mode. Now
when the clapper hear's someone in the bathroom it will auto start the
circulation process.
Or consider using the RedyTemp in the On-Demand mode using a wireless
push-button. Simply replace the timer with a "wireless outlet
control" similar to those used by the elderly when they don't want to
get up to turn on/off lamps. Press the wireless remote control from
anywhere in your house (range 100-150ft) for no-wait hot water
throughout your home.
Return on investment estimated at two years for a family of four which
waits an average of one minute for hot water.
Install a tankless water heater for "endless" hot water and a RedyTemp
for "no-wait" hot water.
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 17:21:32 GMT, Steve Spence
<spence@green-trust.org> wrote:
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>Replace lighting with CF's Where appropriate. (all our lighting is CF)
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>Place phantom loads (TV, Microwave, Transformers) on switched power strips.
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>insulate doors and windows
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>add rain rarrels to downspouts for lawn and garden irrigation.
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>low flow faucets, shower heads, and toilets.
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>high efficiency appliances
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>Steve Spence
>Dir., Green Trust
>http://www.green-trust.org
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>chrisvillar@hotmail.com wrote:
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| Edwin Pawlowski 2005-08-07, 3:21 pm |
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<Info@_RemoveBetweenSpaces_RedyTemp.com> wrote in message
> to the lighting energy used while the person stands there waiting. A
> family of four waiting 1 minute for hot water spends around 97.3 hours
> every year "waiting". (Four people waiting 4 times per day, 365 days
> in a year, divided by 60 for total hrs) Include a lifestyle fudge
> factor and reduce it to 72 hours of "very cold" city water filling up
> your water heater needlessly.
Crock of crap, really. While waiting for the hot water for the shower, I
use the cooler water to brush my teeth or rinse my eyeglasses. No wasted
time, no wasted water. Same wit dishes. A quick rinse is OK for the
cooler water too.
--
Ed
http://pages.cthome.net/edhome/
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