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April 22, 2020
Earth Day: Consider a Tankless Water Heater
Today is Earth Day and I wanted to share an economical and realistic idea of trying to do something for the Earth. Over the last year there was a lot of unhelpful talk about completely ending all use of fossil fuels immediately. It’s a laudable goal, but without a massive improvement in technology, massive reduction energy consumption, and/or population dive of biblical proportions, we aren’t going to independent of fossil fuel use any time soon. But, realistic steps in the right direction that are quite feasible. Some already well-known home retrofits for reducing energy use include: Switching ancient incandescent bulbs[…continue reading]






