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[dms007]

I think functionality is more important than aesthetics.

Not always, people tend to gravitate towards aesthetic objects even though the functionality would be less.


That is also another example to show that gravity exists everywhere.
Netwon's law states that every object in the universe attracts everyother object.
This attraction is called gravity (NOTE. the amount of attraction varies as it depends on several factors...)

[Maria28]

I think functionality is more important than aesthetics.

Not always, people tend to gravitate towards aesthetic objects even though the functionality would be less.


That is also another example to show that gravity exists everywhere.
Netwon's law states that every object in the universe attracts everyother object.
This attraction is called gravity (NOTE. the amount of attraction varies as it depends on several factors...)

Hello dms, long time to see you

My_Friend, I believe people are used to build their houses in specific ways here. Builders are used to do it that way and their clients probably don't even know there is an alternative way.

[twinkle]

Our water tank is under the garden with an access hatch covered in a decorative rockery. The hot water tank and panels are on the roof hidden behind the spiralling stairwell that goes right up to the roof. Developers SHOULD be hiding them. There has been a law passed. As usual things are sooooooo slack...........

[dms007]

Hello dms, long time to see you

Ah I totally forgot that you are the maria that I used to have fun with. It has been quite a long time you see.....
where have you been all these time?

[devil]

why, when we have so much 'free (solar heated) water do we have cold fill washing machines and dishwashers!!!

Because they work better with cold water: in fact, they do not work with how water.

Try this experiment. Take two plates or somesuch, preferably with a rustic matt glaze. Put a few drops of egg white on each and smear it round. Now take one of them and rinse it under the cold tap: hey presto! It's clean. Now take the other and rinse it under the hot tap! An unholy white gooey mess that will not wash off. This is because all proteins are transformed into insoluble matter at temps above ~60°C. Where do you find proteins other than in eggs? In all animal products, including those produced by human sweat glands and in a lot of vegetable ones, as well. So, if you want clothes where organic stains are not washed out or cutlery with food congealed around the fork tines, go ahead and connect your washing machine to the hot tap. If you want clean clothes and food-free crockery/cutlery, then use the cold water. In fact, starting with cold water and slowly heating it up in the machine is, by far, the most efficient way of cleaning both dishes and clothes, because proteins are often bound with fats and doing it this way can often enhance the micellar effect of the detergent and pull the protein/fat mixtures away from the substrate at the optimum temperature for each combination.

My company in Switzerland used to make washing machines for electronics assemblies, which also had to have strict temperature control because some flux component residues (the stuff we were trying to clean off) contained amino acids (the building blocks of proteins). In order to cut down on the time required for a cleaning cycle, we experimented with injecting hot water after the start of the cleaning cycle with cold water, rather than simply heating the water in the machine. The success was very mitigated; the cleaning quality was poorer and the extra cost of the hot water system plus an electronic controller to have the correct heating profile was nearly the equivalent of £800. We never put that machine into production.

[nhowarth]

Put them in the ground and have pressurised water systems; and why, when we have so much 'free (solar heated) water do we have cold fill washing machines and dishwashers!!!

Or put them in the attic - helps to keep the water cold if you don't have the sun blazing down on them. A number of houses are now being built with 'half roofs' around the edges of the building - I understand this is ploy to get around the regulations which say that these tanks, etc, should not be visible from street level.

As for hot & cold fill appliances - when I asked about them they said 'there's no demand' and 'they break down too often'.

Cheers,

[My_Friend]

I didn't know about the regulations.

The fact that they made them shows that my thoughts regarding the subject are not unreasonable.

[karma]

why to bother urself for the tanks on the roofs so much?..what if it was turkish tanks on the streets??
think positive

[My_Friend]

why to bother urself for the tanks on the roofs so much?..what if it was turkish tanks on the streets??
think positive

It seems that illogical things intrigue me.

That's why I prefer women over men.

[BOF]

Devil
You are one hell of a clever guy!! im impressed!!