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Yo Greg!
On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 23:20:01 -0500, wrote:
I have a gas pool heater, I know how much gas it takes to heat water. I don't use the heater.. Have you analyzed the cost of a gas pool heater vs high efficiency reverse cycle electric? It's kind of a moot question for me since we don't have gas here (only propane) but just curious. |
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Yo Greg!
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On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 23:34:44 -0500, Wayne.B wrote: On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 23:20:01 -0500, wrote: I have a gas pool heater, I know how much gas it takes to heat water. I don't use the heater.. Have you analyzed the cost of a gas pool heater vs high efficiency reverse cycle electric? It's kind of a moot question for me since we don't have gas here (only propane) but just curious. This is actually propane too. 330,000 BTU Starite. I never really looked into it. I got the heater for free. My wife has 7 heated pools at the country club and they are using heat pumps. They have huge bills. Reply: I run a solar heater on my pool and have a floating blanket to keep it warm. Blanket not really needed in the mid summer most of the time. Used to have a gas heater. Natural gas and the little needle on the meter looked like the front end of Cessna when I heated my pool via the gas heater. Only did it twice for parties. Neighbor heated his pool one may to get an extra couple weeks on the start of the season. $450 gas bill and that was 25 years ago. |
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Yo Greg!
On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 15:24:22 -0500, wrote:
On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 11:09:16 -0800, wrote: On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 23:20:01 -0500, wrote: On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 19:44:48 -0800, wrote: The issue is not he animal itself it is the fact that we have lured them into places where they can get killed by boats and then want to stop the boats from being there. We just want FPL to stop luring them into the river. Just follow the Endangered Species Act, that is all we want. They are a migratory species and we are interfering with that migratory pattern. It is similar to the Canada Geese that people entice into staying over the winter and causing problems. I guess we have no impact on how they travel then? Give me a break. The impact we have is negative. We use artificially heated water to lure them into places where they do not have enough to eat, they foul the water because too many are in too small a spot (causing any number of illnesses) and that also happens to be in the only east west waterway in Florida. If we were following the ESA law we would prevent FPL from dumping hot water in the river, we would not be requiring them to do it. Then the manatee would migrate south in the winter like they had been doing for the last 100,000 years ... until we created warm water pools. The reality is the high efficiency power plant we have here does not really put much hot water in the river so we are paying them to heat water. Why don't the global warming people get mad about that. It increases the power plant's carbon footprint with no benefit to the customer or the economy. I have a gas pool heater, I know how much gas it takes to heat water. I don't use the heater.. So all those boats are doing the right thing and running them over is just fine. I didn't say that at all but when you attract them to the place where the boats HAVE TO GO, some will get hit. This is the ONLY east west route across Florida. And, someone gunning their engine is more important than the manatee getting to it's destination... |
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