An Inconvient Truth About Water Heating

Presented at 1st Long Island Global Warming Summit (2007)

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Green
• Water
• Heating
• Energy-Star
• GFX
• Drainwater
• Heat
• Recovery
• (DHR)
• Engineering
• Health

[gfxinventor]

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[bnsnid]

sewer gas eats through copper drain lines, and more coldwater is used in a house hold than hot. this isnt a practical idea.

[gfxinventor]

@bnsnid Ever check the vertical copper-drains in a 100-year old house? You may be eating too many beans? I know more cold water is used in a house; GFX only extracts the heat from hot & tepid drain water before it reaches the sewer pipe.

[bnsnid]

@gfxinventor im a plumber and ive seen copper drains in a 50 year old house, never in a 100 year old house. It usally wont last that long, it turns paper thin you can stick your finger right through it. Thats why its very rare to see someone putting it in a new building and i have never seen anyone put copper drains in a new house around here. Its also very expensive and not worth the cost. Thats what im mean when i say its not practical.

[gfxinventor]

@bnsnid There are thousands of all-copper GFX's and GFX-knockoffs installed worldwide. We can make their drains out of thin-wall stainless, but not one customer asked for this.

[bnsnid]

@gfxinventor you would be better off using a solar waterheater as a secondary.

[gfxinventor]

@bnsnid Why not both? A GFX can increase the capacity of solar (photon) water heaters. By reducing the size of their photon-collectors, a GFX could lower the overall cost in northern climates -- or reduce the amount of photon-energy dumped in hot climates like Hawaii.

[dinnerandashow]

@gfxinventor

I like her clean.

[bnsnid]

@gfxinventor it is an interesting idea, still not sure its practical but i do like seeing different ideas. I do think stainless would be the better way to go. Conservation and heat recovery is were the future of plumbing is going. thanks for the post.

[gfxinventor]

@dinnerandashow Do your girlfriends?

[malachy1847]

@gfxinventor Should the exterior of this unit not be lagged to stop heat losses in a cold basement as all drain lines are not adjacent to a cosy warm boiler...