I'm in a state not far off from this myself.
I spent several years as a regular , daily member of a few odd chatrooms, before I one day came to the conclusion "That's enough of this" and in effect committed infocide within that network.
I found them through idle curiousity, I stayed while I felt connected, times changed the people and push came to shove; I left.
Unfortunately, this left a hole that I used to fill with some of that (rather disconnected) social interaction, in spite of the continually degraded quality of such.
Some time later I now find myself ignoring a prickly itch to hop back on the networks "just to see what's up", instead vacantly seeking through newsfeeds and abandoning the odd attempt to comment partway through. Not sure why I'm submitting this one, I suppose it to be mildly cathartic, but reading this article has granted an interesting perspective on my own situation, so I suppose sharing that is reason enough.
Either way, this is quite enough socializing on the internet for this lurker tonight.
It's neither here nor there, but I'll happily vouch for the quality of MEC's backpacks, I've used them throughout a sizable chunk of my life, and find they require replacement owing more to folk with sticky fingers than wear and tear - and I'm not the kindest to my backpacks either!
Maybe I've had too long a day and misread something, but here I go anyhow.
The efficiency of a gas water heater may be increased through mechanisms that enable it only when water flows through it, such as when one takes a shower or fills the dishwasher. In contrast, a classic electrically heated water tank sits there to be filled with cold water, which gets heated up, and if it isn't all draining out already, cools back down to require reheating.
Reheating a standing tank of water several times over the course of a day is wasteful.
In a related thread, also consider the same water tank while one takes a long shower. We've all* (* This is a vast generalization for the internet) had the hot water run out of us during a nice shower, and this is because an electric water heater cannot effectively heat a freshly filled tank of water while said tank is being drained.
I'm sure if another person feels the need to expand on this at all, they're quite capable.
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