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Old 02-19-2012, 12:22 PM
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Originally Posted by angiefox10 View Post
So... If a recirculating pump cost almost $500 and also cost extra or the electricity... How long does it take to recoup your money from water not used to heat the water up three to four minutes faster?
If my math is correct, you would have to use 290697.67 gallons of water @ $1.72 per 1000 thousand to equal $500. Let's figure a rate of 2 gals per minute with a warm up time of 2 minutes. This means you could warm up 72674 showers before reaching the $500 break even point. That's 199 years worth of daily showers! If figured at 5 gals per minute, it would be approximately 81 years.
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