Posted on 07/22/2023 7:45:53 AM PDT by logi_cal869
The U.S. Department of Energy on Friday proposed energy efficiency standards on water heaters it said would save consumers $11.4 billion on energy and water bills annually.
The standards on residential water heater efficiency, which are required by Congress, have not been updated in 13 years. Water heating is responsible for roughly 13% of both annual residential energy use and consumer utility costs, the DOE said.
The proposal would require the most common-sized electric water heaters to achieve efficiency gains with heat pump technology and gas-fired water heaters to achieve efficiency gains through condensing technology.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
I wonder how they'll achieve this by simultaneously banning gas (as they're doing here on the left coast)...
Lol, how long to recoup the initial cost and installation?
...basically TRIPLING the price of water heaters. Also requires that electrical power be strung to ALL water heaters too, and likely via new circuits.
“Lol, how long to recoup the initial cost and installation?”
My estimate is 20 to 50 years, depending on usage rate.
Stop lying to me.
Lukewarm showers, everyone?
Complete this phrase: anything the government touches turns to ______.
Dookie
CONTROLLING US IS ALL THEY CARE ABOUT!
longer than they have scheduled us to last, no doubt.
What they don't tell you is that the new heaters will cost consumers $30 billion over what they would pay for current technology.
STOP!
This lousy government is way out of control and needs disassembling. Fire most ciphers without severance or pension.
Looks like they’ve got new water recycling standards planned for us as well”
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/22/business/beer-recycled-wastewater.html
It’s almost as if they don’t love us…
Hmm. That's a new one for me. Never heard that. Our everyday euphemism for _____ is "hoodah."
All condensers do is move heat. So they take the heat out of the interior of you house, to the hot water. Now we have to heat the house again.
that is during the winter, in summer might be ok.
more useful in the south
But the govt is one size fits all, they never look at the system, only the most perfect hypothetical situation.
Just dissolve this mess we pretend is our federal government. Special interests and the bureaucratic deep state hijacked all three branches of government decades ago. The power of our elected representatives is miniscule at best. The deep state compromises them, blackmail them, and we are left with worse and worse every year.
I’m not sure of the origin, just that it’s in my head.
If it really saves consumers so much $$, they will do it all by themselves, faster than any government mandate
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