Nah, we don't need an ulterior profit motive like the conspiracy theory party.
Science! It's a thing.
Bull shit, most of the “Improvements” to the code are just a cash grab, here they have to spray foam the rim joists, all fine and dandy but what about the other exterior walls, it may seal the basement better but the majority of homes most never will do a basement devo
Installing a 200,000 btu on deman water heater to get a rebate, so it runs for 3 hours that’s 600.000 btu and it fires every time you use the hot water,
a 50 gal hot water tank is 45,000 btu
That tank many would fire for a total of 4 hours each day (depends on the recovery) so well say 250,000 btu for the day
now the on demand running for 3 hours I bet it’d be more with a family of 4
so just because the one fires on demand it’s better for the environment because most hot water tanks have standing pilot(mid effi), the high effy used to have standing as well I think their all fore on call for heat
but people think because it’s called high efficiency it’s better for the environment
In a way it is but your burning 3-4times gas per day the condensation that from the products of combustion is gonna eventually wreak havoc on all our older already strained sewer systems how is helping if your burning a lot more gas and the cost to fix/install