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On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Sean Donelan wrote: If there was one tenant that left the hot water running 24 hours, 7 days a week; so other tenants complained they didn't get enough hot water. One That has never happened to me. We have good enough infrastructure that one tenant filling up their hot water bath doesn't deplete the infrastructure of "hot water production" in my building. I seriously doubt anyone would notice me running hot water 24/7, because the infrastructure is able to handle that. No, everybody can't do it, but if I need to for a couple of hours, it works. tenant plugged in maximum wattage heaters on every circuit and left them on high 24 hours a day; left the television volume turned up to the maximum 24 hours a day; and so forth. I know people who run servers in their dorms due to this. It might go away, power is easy to meter. If you were the neighbor of such a tenant in a building, would you be pleased that your monthly fees were being increased or that one tenant was using all the hot water and generating a lot of noise all day and all night? Or might you complain to the landlord about those problems. Your analogy is halting, but that's to be expected. I certainly wouldn't want to pay more for the landlord to install metering everywhere. There is much overhead in metering and billing on that. -- Mikael Abrahamsson email: [email protected]
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