Compare Water Heating Systems

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 […]

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Heating Water to Save Electricity Costs

I live in South Africa and we are facing a serious shortage of electricity supply. This is resulting in what are euphemistically called load shedding periods all over the country on a seemingly random basis. Load shedding is a sudden loss of power supply as far as consumers are concerned.Yesterday a number of gold mines […]

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