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Greenbuilding Archive for June 2000
367 messages, last added Tue Nov 26 17:24:10 2002

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Re: GBlist: Using Water Heater As Boiler



Carmine:
I'm a lighting designer, not a hydronic expert. I just think that the value of moving slightly heated water around is overrated. The cost to heat 400 gallons of water 5F with propane is $0.01. So if your installed cost for some kind of device is $500, you must heat 500,000 gallons of water 10F just to break even. (propane at $1.00/gal, 80,000 btu's/gal, water @ 8lb's/gal.)
 
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 5:03 AM
Subject: Re: GBlist: Using Water Heater As Boiler

Do you also object to using tankless gas water heaters instead of boilers
for combined space & water heating?