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It is just 2 old people
I mean add 50kWh on top of their monthly leccy bill for a fair assessment of energy consumption:
Three and then it lasts over a month. Although I have picked up that Mercury Build-it usually overfills it and once it was 3.5kg.
I think this is over-exaggerated. A heating once a day to 70 should suffice. Modern temps on geysers are apparently too low to prevent Legionnaires.
How would that make it a fair assessment? It's electricity usage and not energy usage and the current estimate of 30kw/h would drastically push up the bill for most people. I also don't think a stove would have cost us less than 100kw/h a month, maybe even 200.
If your temp is too low you would hit that chance regardless. If it's correct I don't think it matters whether you heat it once a day or keep it warm. If you only use it once a day you're going to want to set it a bit higher in any case to give enough hot water.
The loss is still a factor as you need to heat it up again at the next usage, if it's before it basically hits ambient, you're still losing energy.
You're definitely using up more power by heating up once a day to 70C than just keeping it at 55-60C as your heat leakage will increase due to difference to ambient. Any switch on/off power saving generally has more to do with how long the water sits at ambient.
And if you heat it once a day, you're just increasing standing loss by having it at a higher temperature. Just keep it on at a lower temp, you'll see way more power saving at heating to 55-60C once or twice a day than going to 70C.
Only if you heat it up again after you used it. That's not how they do it.
Again you heat it up when you use it and don't keep it there for use so there is no heat leakage.
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When you get enough charge in the batteries sure....
I'm just saying there is a lot of energy in gas. When people say they hardly use any electricity but in fact are using **** loads of gas doesn't really paint the true picture of their energy needs. Anyway, gas is more expensive than electricity, so you're not saving anything by the way.
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I think it is less than what I would normally make for myself, but then again I was never really hungry after eating a meal. I have eaten two servings before, but that was not in circumstances that wasn't part of my normal routine.
Sure but we aren't discussing energy needs but electricity needs and if you can replace it I don't see why not. If we were we would also have to factor in things like the fuel you use. And I don't think gas is more expensive if I go with my own use and what I would use on a stove. For some things perhaps not for cooking.
Yes we are. People use gas because the power was always out.
It's flawed reasoning as exactly the reason people turned to gas is because they want to save electricity so you can't include that back to come to an average consumption to charge people by.
50 bucks isn't bad actually
Not sure what you're talking about, for a geyser you're heating up all the water in the tank to the temperature, that water will have a standing loss.
