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Originally Posted by Len_A
Setec, you got a High Efficiency furnace, and what makes it HE is that it captures waste heat?
Rember this link from an earlier post: Find greatest energy savings in power production industry
Bravo for you having the foresight to get an HE furnace. Now, read the above article, and imagine how much better it would be if the power utilities did what you did - capture the waste heat and use it!! |
I do remember. I guess I can't get my head around why people are anti-efficiency. Efficiency that costs more that it's worth isn't efficiency, but that isn't a reason to hate real efficiency. Airplanes fly because they are efficient enough to generate more lift than drag. If modern cars had engines as efficient as a Model T...the engine would be the size of your house to generate the same amount of power. Computers and related devices are smaller now because the integrated circuits are more efficient, they put a larger and larger number of transistors in the same space, partly by using less power per transistor than their predecessors. I don't see anyone (well, almost no one) saying they want a bigger, heavier laptop like in the old days..."if electricity was cheaper, I'd be happy to have a big old heavy laptop that was cheap to recharge...we don't need smaller computers, we need cheaper electricity".