Posted on 01/04/2025 12:29:38 AM PST by george76
This asshole can’t go soon enough.
The Department of Energy should be dissolved. Afuera!
Biden: Stroke of the pen, law of the land. Kinda cool.
Trump: Stroke of the pen, revoke your law of the land. Kinda cool.
Many homes were designed with only enough space to fit water heaters of the time. These new ones are larger and require more space. Therefore many people will not be able to replace their hot water heaters at all. People in mobile homes are really screwed because there simply is no place to make more space.
Yes. To start.
Democrats want people to freeze and starve.
Several Factoids
- El Rush-Bo was the first one to push the Rinnai Tankless Water Heaters
- After listening to El Rush-Bo, my six brothers and sisters and I all pitched in and bought mom a Rinnai Tankless water heater.
They are grrrrrrreat
You think Biden wrote up this edict? Obama’s people put the pen in his hand and pointed where to sign.
Our nation is affected WAY too much by these exec orders. We need to throttle down these fake laws by 90%.
I certainly pray so
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condensing vs noncondensing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdIEnT9X0lg
Weirdly enough, I have been looking at tankless for a while now, and here’s what I’ve learned:
Gas (propane and natural gas) can handle twice the flow rate as electric due to the limitations of electric heating elements. Natural gas is the most economical to run, electric and propane being the most expensive (depending on your local rates). There is a caveat that gas/propane heaters need annual scale servicing and some cities require an additional capture device (cartridge) for the condensate which will need to be replaced periodically. Non condensing are cheaper to purchase but require double-walled exhaust venting because of high temps (expensive) but condensing can be vented via pvc piping as the exhaust is cooler. It is also said that while tankless may be more efficient they are not necessarily cheaper to operate. Limitless hot water means the teens will be more likely to take longer showers since there’s no cold water cue to get out. There’s also a temptation to return to hot water laundry instead of cold water, and, if you have an electric unit and the power goes out, there goes your hot water, too. You may still wait a some seconds for the water to heat and travel it to the point of use, so some people install mini-tanks at the point of use to compensate for the lag. The mini-tanks (2, 4 or 6 gallons) add to the overall operating cost plus the cost of adding electric outlets and water lines, etc.
Anything that ahole has done needs to be rolled back day 1 or 2.
Eff this loser and his equally scumbag minions doing this.
Eff every damn one of them.
The DOE doesn’t have the authority to make rules and regulations. Nor does the EPA etc, only congress does.
With the SCOTUS Chevron ruling last year this action may actually be law breaking.
On the opposite side, eliminating such illegal regulation may instead be aligning more with Constitutional law.
The problem is it’ll take a massive personnel force decades to unwind +40 years of unconstitutional regulation even though it can be accomplished with the stroke of a pen.
Meanwhile the White House is heated by gas…
It is time to play to win, the same way the Democrats do.
I wish he could reinstate all the death penalty cases.
“It is also said that while tankless may be more efficient they are not necessarily cheaper to operate”
I’ve run the numbers several times (thank you SmartMeter Texas). It comes out to about 50 kwh per month for an indoor 50 gallon tank being kept warm, with no flow (just losses through the tank walls). So about $60 to $90 per year (obviously much more in states with ‘free’ electricity - solar/wind).
Not a bad deal to have 50 gallons of hot water always ready after power goes out, or have 50 gallons of drinking water after an earthquake.
By the way, how much does it cost to have a plumber do the de-scaling (which is required to maintain warranty coverage, but only on tankless units)?
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