{"id":127746,"date":"2021-09-16T22:22:19","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T05:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/the-man-hacking-hot-water-to-save-the-planet"},"modified":"2021-09-16T22:22:19","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T05:22:19","slug":"the-man-hacking-hot-water-to-save-the-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/the-man-hacking-hot-water-to-save-the-planet","title":{"rendered":"The man hacking hot water to save the planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SD87JOz9Ee4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"\"><p>No matter the price tag, the industry also has to convince consumers it\u2019s worth their time to upgrade to new technologies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s difficult to get homeowners to change from the technology that they\u2019re used to, especially in staid devices like water heaters, because they think of it as a utility: open the faucet, water comes out,\u201d Callahan told Freethink. \u201cThere\u2019s an education process to get them to understand that there\u2019s a better, cheaper, faster, cooler way to [heat water].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tankless systems like the Model 3 aren\u2019t the only new instant hot water-heating technologies aiming to reshape the industry. Solar-powered water heaters can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.energy.gov\/energysaver\/estimating-cost-and-energy-efficiency-solar-water-heater\">reduce your utility bill by 50 to 80%<\/a>, according to the U.S. Energy Department. Heat pump water heaters \u2014 which extract heat from the air, store it in tanks, and use it to heat water \u2014 are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.energy.gov\/energysaver\/heat-pump-water-heaters\">estimated<\/a> to be at least twice as efficient as conventional systems, partly because they can store midday heat and use it later that night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No matter the price tag, the industry also has to convince consumers it\u2019s worth their time to upgrade to new technologies. \u201cIt\u2019s difficult to get homeowners to change from the technology that they\u2019re used to, especially in staid devices like water heaters, because they think of it as a utility: open the faucet, water comes [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,32,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-education","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}