<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/3ca7be44-01b0-4e26-af4e-400b2f1d1152/B549128C-00A6-4528-8F7A-344BEE4E15E5/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://green.yahoo.com/blog/ecogeek/1010/stop-pouring-hot-water-down-the-drain.html" href="http://green.yahoo.com/blog/ecogeek/1010/stop-pouring-hot-water-down-the-drain.html" style="font-size: 11px;">green.yahoo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://green.yahoo.com/blog/ecogeek/1010/stop-pouring-hot-water-down-the-drain.html"><H1>Stop pouring hot water down the drain!</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://green.yahoo.com/blog/ecogeek/1010/stop-pouring-hot-water-down-the-drain.html"><DIV class="artmeta1"> <DIV class="authorinfo"> <SPAN class="writtenby"> By <SPAN class="vcard"><SPAN class="fn">Hank Green</SPAN></SPAN> </SPAN> </DIV> <SPAN class="timestamp"> Posted Mon Mar 23, 2009 2:39pm PDT</SPAN> </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://green.yahoo.com/blog/ecogeek/1010/stop-pouring-hot-water-down-the-drain.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/green.yahoo.com/img/ECB15DAE-CCA9-4C7F-B846-1238BEF8392A" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://green.yahoo.com/blog/ecogeek/1010/stop-pouring-hot-water-down-the-drain.html"><P>So, taking hot showers during the winter is one of the most wonderful things in the world. And yes, I recognize that it takes a tremendous amount of energy to heat that water before it hits me, warms me, and makes me feel so extremely happy.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://green.yahoo.com/blog/ecogeek/1010/stop-pouring-hot-water-down-the-drain.html"><P>But then that water hits the tub, and runs down into the sewer, and you want to know something funny...that water is still very hot. All of the energy to heat ALL that water, and it's only used for a few seconds before it's washed (still nice and warm) down the drain.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://green.yahoo.com/blog/ecogeek/1010/stop-pouring-hot-water-down-the-drain.html"><P>The <A href="http://www.ecodrain.ca/en/node" linkindex="65">EcoDrain</A> takes this previously wasted energy and captures it, taking the load off of your hot water heater. Indeed, when used optimally it can reduce hot water heater use 40%. That is a huge amount of your daily energy use, and a huge amount of America's energy use.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://green.yahoo.com/blog/ecogeek/1010/stop-pouring-hot-water-down-the-drain.html">The EcoDrain is simply a heat exchanger that plugs into your shower drain.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/B549128C-00A6-4528-8F7A-344BEE4E15E5/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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