Water heating

So really cool stuff.

Now, this last news story that I wanted to highlight here, and this is a product around using the heat from a Bitcoin miner to heat water.

And in this case, a hot water tank that you might have at home.

Let me just play this for you.

Control it all from the app.

Bitwater.

Heat water, mine Bitcoin.

How cool is that? It's absolutely wild, I think.

Okay, question number eight.

Is it mutter to turn on the hot water tap on Shabbos? If you live in an apartment building, can be...

Be presumed that the small amount of hot water you're using to wash your hands does not trigger the boiler to turn on or has already been heated by a Goyish resident.

So it's really a Mitzvah question, right? Meaning, here are the two issues that come up turning on hot water from a faucet on Shabbos.

One is that it causes the thermostat to heat water sooner than it otherwise would have heated.

So you're connecting an electric circuit and or making the fire turn on, you know, making the fire higher.

You know, it's a there's a filament or a gas flame that will go on.

And that's Havara Mida'a Raisa, right? If that happens.

What? And distributors.

Say what again? again what equipment i know water heaters hey so we are about to launch the year of the water heater and it's going to be focused on heat pump water heaters and if that's not viable electric water heaters this is the second most intensive appliance you have in your home from an energy use perspective okay most people don't know that okay

yeah i guess i didn't click but i mean it makes sense

yeah i mean you're using it a lot right so it's your hvac first and then it's your water heater and most of us don't really think about our water heater until it breaks right so there's an opportunity here for us to educate um another thing about water heaters that's pretty cool with our work is you can actually save money by electrifying a water heater and because they're so much more efficient oh yeah and heat pumps lots of money can be saved so we're working with as i mentioned uh this week we met with manufacturers and distributors we have another meeting come up coming up with the sales folks that you'd like call to your house sure We're trying to create a program.

About 1,100 water heaters get installed in Ann Arbor at every given year.

This last year, only 64 of them were electric.

So we have a huge market opportunity.

So we're going to aim for 2,027 water heaters next year, which is, as you do your math, I know it's more than a doubling of the number, but we're hoping that people pay attention to their water heater.

Um, I d- I forgot to tell you this part, Chris, 'cause I'm pretty sure this is how it's gonna end.

I, um, [smacks lips] so you know how my hot water works unless you use it-

Right

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I have to climb up a ladder into the attic and turn it-

Oh

... uh, the tankless hot water heater off and then turn it back on again.

Why does that keep happening? Have you figured that out?

Even among home appliances, not exactly the sexiest category to begin with, it is unprepossessing and plain, ubiquitous yet invisible, at least until it breaks down.

That tends to be the one time a home or building owner interacts with the hot water heater at all when they replace it.

That happens about 10 million times a year in the US.

Of the water heaters sold each year in the US, about 45% burn natural gas, and that number is declining.

And it's the kind of thing that you can replace in a morning or an afternoon.

And so you can actually make a really big impact on your energy in your home and actually your comfort.

You may not think about your water heater, but you definitely think about your hot water.

You think about your shower and things like that.