{"id":118,"date":"2008-01-04T21:54:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-05T05:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.airs.com\/blog\/archives\/118"},"modified":"2008-01-04T21:54:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-05T05:54:00","slug":"separate-appliances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.airs.com\/blog\/archives\/118","title":{"rendered":"Separate Appliances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why don&#8217;t people routinely make appliances which work together?  The refrigerator generates heat; this should be routed into the oven.  The oven generates heat; this should be routed into the hot water heater.  This is probably not significant energy usage compared to cars; is it not worth doing at all?<\/p>\n<p>We need to keep working toward maintaining our lifestyles while minimizing energy inputs.  After all, even if we get past oil depletion and excess carbon dioxide, we&#8217;ll still eventually have to deal with waste heat.<\/p>\n<p>And why do people still make sinks with separate hot and cold taps, so that you have to middle with them to get the right temperature?  A single tap setting the temperature works fine, and is much easier to use in practice.  Is this just a style thing, or is there some practical reason for it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why don&#8217;t people routinely make appliances which work together? The refrigerator generates heat; this should be routed into the oven. The oven generates heat; this should be routed into the hot water heater. This is probably not significant energy usage compared to cars; is it not worth doing at all? We need to keep working [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.airs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.airs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.airs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.airs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.airs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.airs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.airs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.airs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.airs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}