Comment on How many keurigs would I need to daisy chain together to replace a water heater in an average house?

• Ottomateeverything@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The other one is just comparing volume.

  This post is just basing it on heat capacity.

  There’s another saying 34 equating it to a tank less heater.

  The original question is too vague - there’s no one to one mapping between keurigs and water heaters. If you’re just trying to heat your houses hot water, any of those answers are valid. So is “1”. It’s just a question of what you REALLY want and what your constraints are.

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  • RankWeis@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I read once that if you’re trying to get some creativity juices flowing, removing unnecessary details will allow for more abstract thought. Like “write a story about an ogre” would lead to very different stories than “write a story about an ogre doing pushups”, even if the latter is probably arguably more funny.

    So that was my thinking here about being a bit vague, I was specifically talking about tankless water heaters which got us on the subject though.

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    • Ottomateeverything@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Oh I totally get you, and it leads to more interesting perspectives and discussion for sure. I don’t mean to insult your question by calling it vague - the person was just saying they didn’t know what to believe among multiple answers and who was right, and I was pointing out that a vague question has multiple different answers. Didn’t mean it to come off as insulting your question.

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    • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The problem with this answer will always be volume. 6 of them would be one really quick shower.

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