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BENEFITS DERIVED
FROM SEISCO’S IMPROVED TANKLESS WATER HEATING TECHNOLOGY
Considering the long, distinguished history of storage-tank heaters, a suitable question is why try and develop an improved "tankless water heater"? With all the water heating technologies today including solar water heaters, heat recovery, and heat pump water heaters, why bother trying SEISCO? Before going any further with the discussion of the SEISCO tankless water heater system, let us use the following passages to address these questions of "why". Ultra High Energy Efficiency Not now, or ever, will an electric storage-tank water heater equal the 99+% efficiency of the tankless SEISCO, whose efficiency was initially determined through testing by the Tennessee Valley Authority . The inherent design of storage-tank water heaters limit how well the tank can be insulated to reduce heat (energy) loss when it is not in use. Contrarily, when the SEISCO water heater is not in use it shuts off. A Lifestyle of Continuous Hot Water Consider the value of being able to fill large spa tubs–which are becoming increasingly more common in new homes–keeping hot water for as long as you wish to bathe, knowing that you will still have hot water to shower and rinse off after your bath is finished. Consider the value of continuous hot water to a working mother, arriving home around six p.m., who will be able to do load after load of wash, while simultaneously preparing dinner or watching TV. She no longer needs to worry about having hot water for her family’s nighttime showers. Consider also, the value to the entire family, teenagers, visiting friends or grandchildren, who all will be able to bathe and shower, getting ready as fast as they can with out a thought of using up all the hot water. It is hard to completely measure the lifestyle benefits of having a source for endless hot water, on demand, for as long as you need it. Safety Issue 1. Thousands of people each year suffer serious injury or death, from fire, explosions, and severe scalding from storage-tank water heaters. All too often, the ones who suffer are the ones with the least defense: the very young and the disabled. Ponder the value of providing a water heater system that virtually eliminates the potential for explosion, scalding and water damage? Issue 2. Annually, thousands of people are injured, some very seriously, while attempting to install or remove heavy, tank hot water heaters from basement or attic locations. Consider the relief of a system that provides more benefits than a heavy, tank water heater, but weighs only 20 lbs. and can be carried by most single-handedly. Environment Issue 1. What’s the value of an electrical water heater that is, in many areas today, cheaper than the cost of heating water by gas? For decades we have been concerned about the impact of air quality resulting from burning fossil fuels. Stringent requirements have been placed on emissions from automobiles and major plants burning fossil fuels. We ignore the fact, however, that an estimated 60 million gas water heaters, in the U.S. today, are pumping out carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, and unburned residues hourly from each of their 3-inch diameter vents. When one tries to envision the size of a hole equal to 60 million 3-inch holes from the vents of gas water heaters, the size becomes overwhelming. Which is cleaner, the emissions from gas water heaters in our home or those that come from the stack of a gas fired electric generating plant? Unfortunately, we’ve accepted hazards resulting from the residential burning of fossil fuel, not because it is more efficient, but because it has been CHEAPER. The SEISCO tankless water heater provides cheap heat without including excessive emissions. Issue 2. What’s it worth to produce an alternative water heating system that could reduce the enormous volume of landfill space currently occupied by old tank water heaters? Each year we dispose of over 7,000,000 worn out storage-tank water heaters into landfills. Because of its small size, the SEISCO TANKLESS WATER HEATER reduces this disposal requirement by a factor of approximately 10. In addition, the SEISCO system is at least 85% recyclable. Finally, the SEISCO system can last two to three times longer than the normal storage-tank heaters of today, reducing the frequency of water heater disposal. The use of tankless water heaters can significantly reduce landfill waste and harmful gas heater emissions. Design Options What’s it worth to a homeowner, architect or builder to be able to do away with the concern about where to put the bulky, ugly, storage-tank water heater? What about the homeowners who, because of limitations to their existing electrical service, can’t replace their existing water heater with a electric tankless water heater like the SEISCO? It’s worth a great deal to these homeowners to be able to convert their existing water heater to a system of endless hot water. They can now do so by simply installing a smaller "Extender" model of SEISCO in line with a "tank type" water heater? They no longer need to add a second or larger "tank water heater", wasting energy cooking water when the extra hot water isn’t needed. This arrangement also satisfies the customer who asks what do I do for hot water if the electricity goes off? One can simply buy the smallest storage-tank gas water heater available and add a SEISCO tankless "Extender" model in line with it. Systems and Maintenance Cost Reduction What would a flow-through tankless hot water heater be worth, whose size was only slightly larger than a brief case, yet had the capacity, in a single water heater, to take care of four hotel rooms or eight hospital rooms? Consider the value of tankless water heaters that only use energy when hot water is actually being used. How about the hospital, hotel or resort condominium in which there no longer exists the need to install a two pipe re-circulating system pumping hot water 24 hours a day to rooms at times when the occupants obviously do not need hot water, or that aren’t even occupied? What does it mean to eliminate the need to purchase and maintain a very expensive hot water boiler system, which requires expensive specially trained people just to do the maintenance? What’s the space alone worth to these types of buildings, or for that matter, to the local fast food restaurant, beauty/barber shop, retail space, medical office building and many, many more business and commercial applications? An Intelligent Tankless Water Heater for the New Millennium What would it be worth to have a tankless water heater that periodically checks itself and provides a full diagnostic code with visual flashing LED lights, digital sound alerts or a numerical readout. All of which provide you with information of failing elements long before they actually failed? What if that same tankless water heater could detect leaks, and when it did, not only turns off the power to its heating elements, but also turns off the water supply, protecting your home from electrical AND water damage? Enabling Tankless Water Heater Technology for Solar Water Heaters and Other Passive Hot Water Systems The SEISCO tankless water heater provides all the foregoing benefits and more. There are endless additional reasons for a SEISCO improved tankless water heater including the following: A fully automatic tankless water heater such as the SEISCO not only increases the efficiency of, but also acts as an enabling technology to passive hot water systems, such as solar water heater, heat pump, and hot water heat recovery. Most passive water heating systems require a back up water heater. Normally, to insure an adequate supply of hot water, storage-tank water heaters are used to back up these systems. The passive hot water system, in conjunction with the tank water heater, produces the initial tank full of hot water. As this hot water is being drawn off in use, the water temperature will drop since the passive system cannot heat the flow of incoming cold water fast enough. Once the water temperature has dropped below the tank heater’s preset thermostat setting, say 130° F, the storage-tank’s water heating source, electric or gas, is activated. This causes the back up electric or gas water heater to heat up the total volume of water in the tank and not just the hot water that had been used. This design actually defeats, in part, the efficiency and cost effectiveness of the passive water heater system. Since the total volume of stored hot water is generally heated by the back up, the passive water heater system is deprived the opportunity to fully reheat the water. The SEISCO tankless water heater works much more efficiently in combination with the passive system’s storage tank because it allows the passive system to do what it was designed to do, to reheat the water in the tank. This can be accomplished by first, installing a SEISCO in line down stream from the storage tank water heater and second, by simply disconnecting the elements on the storage tank water heater from the power supply. The SEISCO tankless water heater will only be activated after the water temperature drops below a predetermined set point, say 115° F, then heating ONLY the water actually used, and only for the temperature difference required. For instance, if 10 to 20 gallons of hot water were actually used from the storage tank water heater, then the SEISCO water heater may only be required to raise the temperature of this water by just 10 or 20 degrees. The passive system would thus be allowed the opportunity to provide all, and not just part, of the heat required to reheat the balance of the water in the tank. In addition, the SEISCO heater not only improves the overall efficiency and cost effectiveness of the passive water heater system, it insures an endless and continuous supply of hot water whether the passive system is providing heat or not.
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