-=> Quoting Phil Kane to Reggie Arford <=-
 PK> In a message to GREGORY PROCTER dated 07-21-97 REGGIE ARFORD wrote:
 RA> Oh? Most buildings, esp. houses, have a boiler in them.
 RA> Sometimes it is just used to heat hot water, sometimes as an
 PK> Why would anyone want to heat hot water?   Methinks that one
 PK> would want to heat cold water to make hot water.... 
 PK> Forgive me a language idiosyncrasy of mine...... 
      Heating hot water isn't as silly as it initially sounds!
      There's one of those continual arguements around as to whether you 
should
      fill the electric jug from the hot or the cold tap? Filling from the 
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      tap dumps cold water into the water heating cylinder causing the
      thermostat to turn on the big element using more power than heating the
      jug water from cold? ;-)
      If in a steam loco, you try to recover the exhaust heat energy by
      directing it to the cold water supply (the tender) you end up with a 
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      water supply and boiler feed problems.
      Greg.P.
  
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