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There must be two pipes, one insulated hot side, and one cold side, right? Otherwise the “used” water would cool the hot water going to the next house. Such a
by mwint 4y ago
There must be two pipes, one insulated hot side, and one cold side, right? Otherwise the “used” water would cool the hot water going to the next house.
Such a system would presumably be metered by volume, and it’d incentive the right behavior (extracting as much use from each gallon of water as possible).
- dendrite9 4y agoThat's what I was thinking. I wasn't sure about things like hot tap water for example. I'd assume the heating water is a closed/mostly closed system like a scaled up version of a radiator system in old houses.