{"id":16648,"date":"2014-07-01T10:33:53","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T16:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-367309-1145705.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=16648"},"modified":"2014-07-06T10:36:03","modified_gmt":"2014-07-06T16:36:03","slug":"nearly-guilt-free-hot-shower-provided-ecodrain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/nearly-guilt-free-hot-shower-provided-ecodrain\/","title":{"rendered":"The Nearly Guilt-Free Hot Shower, Provided by EcoDrain"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Do you enjoy a good hot shower? Who doesn’t, right? But any good greenie knows that you’re also using up precious resources: not just water, but also energy. Water heating’s a pretty energy-intensive proposition, as water itself can absorb an awful lot of heat… so it takes lots of energy (relatively) to get it to the temperature necessary for that steamy shower. \u00a0And that’s all you get for that energy: once that water heads down the drain, the heat and energy goes with it. That hot shower doesn’t just feel luxurious… it is!<\/p>\n

What if you could recapture and reuse some of that heat energy? The technology’s actually existed to do this for some time, but mostly at large scales<\/a>. There are options for your shower water, but they’ve traditionally been expensive and fairly inefficient. The EcoDrain<\/a> (which one of my PR buds pointed out to me) claims to overcome the hurdles traditionally associated with in-home heat recovery, allowing the homeowner to earn back some of the cost of the unit. Here’s the company’s video explanation of how the EcoDrain works:<\/p>\n