I work for a hardware/plumbing store, and we sell tankless water heaters. They do have the ability to heat up water in-line, but the difference between this and others is, at least with the ones that we have access to, ours can only serve the purpose of heating for a single application at a time. You can put one under the sink to heat that one line, or you can put it by the shower to only heat the shower, while these will be able to furnish heated water to multiple locations simultaneously. So that is a pretty nice advantage.
Okay, it's sorta' like that. I used to have an economics teacher that always used to say, "If socialism worked, I'd be a socialist, but it doesn't, so I'm a Capitolist." He said that if communism and socialism worked (which would only be possible with leaders who truely did everything in the best interest to the people), then people would have pretty good lives, but people with power get corrupt, and so those societies don't work. So we turn to the more Laze Fare (I know, I misspelled it) ideas because they at least work better.
Anyway, if we didn't have the constant pessimism that regulators (of any technology) would abuse and misuse their powers, then we could get all of the frequencies regulated and probably be just fine. But, since various regulation groups tend to be bent one way or another due to various large interested companies, the unregulated seems like the best choice to us...
For certain applications, regulated sounds fine. In others, like in private homes, it'd be horrible. My solution: offer companies that are willing to pay extra the ability to use regulated frequencies to do their networking, and let the rest of us have at it in the unreg spectrum.
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I work for a hardware/plumbing store, and we sell tankless water heaters. They do have the ability to heat up water in-line, but the difference between this and others is, at least with the ones that we have access to, ours can only serve the purpose of heating for a single application at a time. You can put one under the sink to heat that one line, or you can put it by the shower to only heat the shower, while these will be able to furnish heated water to multiple locations simultaneously. So that is a pretty nice advantage.
Hrm... really makes me want to know how you could get an internal combustion chamber made of paper that doesn't burst into flames...
Oh, and check out the real source of all that material for alot more detailed information.
Okay, it's sorta' like that. I used to have an economics teacher that always used to say, "If socialism worked, I'd be a socialist, but it doesn't, so I'm a Capitolist." He said that if communism and socialism worked (which would only be possible with leaders who truely did everything in the best interest to the people), then people would have pretty good lives, but people with power get corrupt, and so those societies don't work. So we turn to the more Laze Fare (I know, I misspelled it) ideas because they at least work better.
Anyway, if we didn't have the constant pessimism that regulators (of any technology) would abuse and misuse their powers, then we could get all of the frequencies regulated and probably be just fine. But, since various regulation groups tend to be bent one way or another due to various large interested companies, the unregulated seems like the best choice to us...
For certain applications, regulated sounds fine. In others, like in private homes, it'd be horrible. My solution: offer companies that are willing to pay extra the ability to use regulated frequencies to do their networking, and let the rest of us have at it in the unreg spectrum.