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Domestic Water Heating
NEW : Casa Pacis has a novel 50-gallon “heat pump water heater,” located in the right garage. The “heat pumpt” operation has several notable features and operational differences to a conventional electric water heater:
(1) It is about 4 times more energy efficient, i.e., it is four times more environmentally beneficial in terms of GHG emissions.
(Yes, even though electricity is the cleanest of all energy sources, producing it does emit CO2 into the air — on average in California about 0.4 lb. per kWh — and using a heat pumpt instead of conventional resistance heating does reduce our carbon footprint).
(2) For additional environmental benefit, the water heater can be remotely turned on and off, as well as temperature-regulated up and down, so it has minimum standby losses during periods when the house is unoccupied.
(3) Furthermore, the entire home water supply is controlled by a “Moen FLOW Device” that automatically turns the water mains off when sensors detect excess/unexpected momentary water consumption, as would typically occur during toilet flapper valve malfunctioning or any kind of more catastrophic water leakage.
Please let us know by phone or text message in the rare event that there might be no hot water or no water flow at all.
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