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  1. Ian Miller

    Harvesting waste heat from my water heater

    So, my plan was to put the pipe on the outside of the flue, so it seems to me it wouldn't be robbing that much heat from the gases escaping the flue. it would just be capturing the heat that radiates from the flue. At least this is what I think. Am I wrong? Also, the copper pipe wouldn't have...
  2. Ian Miller

    Harvesting waste heat from my water heater

    So I have this idea about how to use the heat that my gas water heater is shooting out the exhaust to preheat water going into the water heater, thereby using less energy. I noticed that the exhaust pipe gets pretty hot, so I was thinking about wrapping a soft copper pipe around it and running...
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