Comment on Heat-pump water heaters are a winner for the climate — and your wallet
Zron@lemmy.world 7 months agoThat seems way less efficient and more prone to issue than just having a central appliance that’s responsible for making hot water.
Comment on Heat-pump water heaters are a winner for the climate — and your wallet
Zron@lemmy.world 7 months agoThat seems way less efficient and more prone to issue than just having a central appliance that’s responsible for making hot water.
Mamertine@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It is, but the dishwasher has to have a water heater in it. It has to heat water to a temp that you shouldn’t keep you got water tank at and heats throughout the cycle.
Your clothes washer (generally) also has a built in water heater.
Squizzy@lemmy.world 7 months ago
My tank is 60° and my washing machine is 40° and dishwasher is 70° at a maximum. A lot more efficient to have a hot water feed to these that have them increase the temperature 30-50°.
sunbeam60@lemmy.one 7 months ago
In most places in Europe, hot water that’s been stored is treated with some suspicion. Besides, having a heating element is probably the least error prone thing you could make.
Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Hundreds of engineers and scientists who designed modern dishwashers disagree with you
Squizzy@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I don’t think you understand how it works if you think there is an opportunity for disagreement here.
It is more efficient to heat hot water to hotter water than it is to heat cold water to the hotter level. If I have a tank of hot water doing nothing why wouldn’t it be more efficient to use that instead of cold water?
Zron@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Do they not have mixing valves where you are?
Squizzy@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Genuinely for the longest time you’d only ever see mixer taps at a kitchen sink, they were not allowed anywhere else for fear of stagnant hot water contamination.
wax@lemmy.wtf 7 months ago
That probably means that the hot water tank needs to be larger though. Guess it depends on the heating source though