A good article from Eskom begins with … It takes a 3kW, 150l hot water cylinder (HWC), or geyser, element to heat the water from 20 ºC to 65 ºC in the order of 2 hours 40 minutes and consumes about 7.838kWh and at an average cost of 35c/kWh which amounts to R 2.74… read […]
Water is a scarce resource in our country and more and more countries are waking up to the fact that water is in limited supply.One of the major uses for domestic water is toilet flushing. Typically a toilet cistern will hold between about 8 litres and 12 litres. In the UK it is estimated that […]
About 20% of a household’s power consumption bill is for the heating of water. Most of this heated water is stored in cistern or storage tank systems which lose between 10% and 20% of the heat used to increase the temperature of water from the ambient temperature to the selected hot water temperature.With such a […]
