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Posted by ransley on March 12, 2008, 7:48 pm
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> =A0 =A0 I doubt if it is going to save you enough to bother.
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> =A0 =A0 If it did work, it would mean you would also be burning more wood =
or you
> will have a colder basement, which could convert to a cooler home.
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> Joseph Meehan
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> =A0Dia 's Muire duit
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> > I will probably be purchasing a new "energy star" electric hot water
> > heater for my house in the not too distant future. I was wondering
> > what the issues would be (good or bad) to gut out the old one, remove
> > the insulation and pipe it just ahead of the new one to act as a
> > tempering tank?? =A0I also have a wood stove in the basement for heating=
> > the house and I would place the old heater tank close to the wood
> > stove to add heat to the tank. =A0I'm thinking I could preheat the water=
> > in the old tank up to about 100 degrees F overnight especially. =A0Do
> > others here think this could be a worthwhile project to do? =A0Thanks
> > for any input on this!
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Any savings is an investment, and what will NG cost in 20 years? maybe
4x more, so it is worth it as plumbing will last 60 yrs + and payback
goes down, J.M. penny foolish as is America and most of the world.
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