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To: Sprite518

Recently in trying to contact my electric company to ask a question, using Twitter seems their method of contacting them. I had to sign up on Twitter and agree to their terms and conditions in order to use it. Their terms and conditions seemed so convoluted, basically as I understood them I was granting the right to Twitter to do whatever they pleased with my information and what I said, that I aborted the whole thing. Any comments on that?

Secondly, it dawned on me I could probably get better information on FR than I could from my electric company. Here is what I was going to ask them:

I drink a lot of instant coffee everyday and I have wondered which is cheaper, electricity wise - Running the hot water for about twenty feet from a 20 gallon tank until it is as hot as it is going to get and then microwaving it for 40 seconds, or micro waving cold water for 2 minutes using a 1,000 watt microwave? Anyone know?


4 posted on 01/18/2011 12:39:56 PM PST by Mind-numbed Robot (Not all that needs to be done needs to be done by the government.)
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To: Mind-numbed Robot

I don’t have any numbers for you but I would think using the hot water would cost more. You’re using X amount from the water heater, which gets replaced by cold water, which then reduces the temp of the water in the heater, so the heater kicks in to heat all 20 gallons plus the cost of the water you let go down the drain. Ping me if someone gives you numbers though, please. :)


5 posted on 01/18/2011 3:18:46 PM PST by RoseyT (Piney Woods of East Texas)
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