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From: Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org>
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On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
>> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Chad Leigh --
>> Shire.Net LLC
>> Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 8:29 PM
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>> Subject: Re: Electricity bill - OT
>
>> Also, the new tankless HW heaters look interesting...
>
> those have been around for at least 20 years.

We had one when I was in high school 30 years ago.

> As most of them are electric, not natural gas,

This was oil-fired, being New England.

> your going to pay more money for heating water with a bunch of those 
> than with a central gas water heater.

As with any technical question, the true answer is "it depends". I hear 
hot water is pretty reasonably priced in Iceland.


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