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2. Own a pool in Southern California? New air-quality rule ...

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   Bans on large gas-fired units and pool heaters will begin in 2027, and high-temperature units in 2029. Gas-fired water heaters will be banned from existing buildings once the appliances reach a ...

3. Tankless water heating - Wikipedia

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   Gas water heaters have an exhaust vent or one to two exhaust pipes on the top, and still require electric power for electronics, sensing and ignition. A three-phase, 21 kW, 400-volt tankless water heater in Europe, with new European color coding for three-phase power. There are also heaters that use several single-phase circuits instead.

4. Water heating - Wikipedia

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   A BTU is the energy required to raise one pound of water by one degree Fahrenheit. A US gallon of water weighs 8.3 pounds (3.8 kg). To raise 230 L (60 US gal) of water from 10 °C (50 °F) to 50 °C (122 °F) at 90% efficiency requires 60 × 8.3 × (122 − 50) × 1.11 = 39,840 BTU. A 46 kW (157,000 BTU/h) heater, as might exist in a tankless ...

5. Edwin Ruud - Wikipedia

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   Edwin Ruud. Edwin Ruud (9 June 1854 – 9 December 1932) was a Norwegian-American mechanical engineer and inventor who immigrated to the United States where he designed, sold, and popularized the tankless water heater. He was the founder and President of Ruud Manufacturing Company, now a division of Rheem Manufacturing Company. [ 6 ][ 7 ][ 8 ]

6. Fuel taxes in the United States - Wikipedia

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   The federal tax was last raised on October 1, 1993, and is not indexed to inflation, which increased 111% from Oct. 1993 until Dec. 2023. On average, as of April 2019, state and local taxes and fees add 34.24 cents to gasoline and 35.89 cents to diesel, for a total US volume-weighted average fuel tax of 52.64 cents per gallon for gas and 60.29 ...

7. More firm clean power needed to hit California climate goals ...

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   Multiple natural gas-fired power plants along the California coast were slated to shut in 2020 under climate plans, but state officials extended their lifespan until 2026 to avoid power shortfalls ...