Comment on Heat-pump water heaters are a winner for the climate — and your wallet
alvvayson@lemmy.world 1 year agoNo, you are wrong on electric tankless heaters.
Their only redeeming quality is that they take less space.
You can’t power them directly with solar power. They need way too much power for that. They put a high strain on the grid during peak hours and therefore impede progress on decarbonizing the grid.
A water heater tank is a thermal energy store. Technology Connections made a video on that.
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 1 year ago
TIL about power requirements. Interesting.
I ended up going gas tankless. Not by choice though. Our contractor went rogue and assumed that’s what we wanted.
Oh well, it solved a problem that we had. We couldn’t fix a tank inside the basement because we were turning it into a room. We needed something that could live outside.