[Greenbuilding] No Fracking Way?

[Nick Pyner]

Well, I guess all you have to do is line up all the people who would prefer
to manually switch the water heaters, and include, if you like, those who
would prefer it but don't don't actually do that now. It would take some
time to do that, but it won't take too long to count them.

And, seeing the crowd is quite small, you might take the opportunity to talk
to them about the times when off-peak power is available.

I don't think it would be the least bit instructive to remember the
introduction of auto defrost fridges, particulalrly as our fridge has manual
defrost. The fridge is worked on infrequently and at a time of my choosing.
A manually switched water heater is a frequent task and not necessarily at
my choosing.


Nick Pyner

Dee Why   NSW

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[mailto:greenbuilding-bounces at lists.bioenergylists.org]On Behalf Of Reuben
Deumling
  Sent: Thursday, 21 April 2011 3:51 PM
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  Subject: Re: [Greenbuilding] No Fracking Way?





  On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 10:40 PM, Nick Pyner <npyner at tig.com.au> wrote:

    ...the most common reason for using timers is that approximately 99.99%
of consumers prefer it that way.


  Really? And you know this how.....? Is your set equal to all consumers who
have timers on their water heaters, or all consumers with tank water
heaters?
  It is perhaps instructive to remember the widespread resistance to the
introduction of auto defrost refrigerators. Consumer Reports resisted them
all the way up through 1974, a full generation after their introduction. Of
course soon after they stopped testing anything that wasn't auto defrost...
I would be wary of making too big a generalization about the particulars of
how folks prefer to interact with their domestic technologies, and to
remember the ways in which we have all been socialized to think of certain
arrangements as normal and others as not, and how these norms have changed
over time.

  Reuben Deumling


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