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You often hear statistics about showers being more efficient than baths. A bath usually uses a lot more water than a shower, so you’re not only using a lot more fresh water, you’re using a lot more energy to heat that extra water.
But consider what happens when you take a shower. The incoming water might be 10 degrees Celsius (50 F). The temperature is then raised to say, 43 degrees Celsius (110 F). The water cascades over your body and then goes down the drain.
It is estimated that about 95% of the energy used to heat the water to a comfortable temperature is simply going down the plughole.
If you have an electric shower unit, you could actually recover some of that energy.
An electric shower connects directly to the cold water supply. A very powerful heating element (typically 8 or 9 kW) then rapidly heats the water to produce an almost instant supply of hot water.
In the winter time, incoming water may be colder than in the summer time, so you need to use more energy to heat the water to the required temperature.
So how can we recover the wasted energy?
The answer is a simple heat exchanger, which transfers the heat from the waste water to the incoming water supply.
Basically what happens is this: the cold water supply runs through a pipe that either coils around the waste pipe, or runs through the inside of the waste pipe.
As the shower starts to flow and hot water goes down the waste pipe, it starts to heat up the cold water inlet pipe. Heat has been transferred from the waste to the cold supply.
The supply water is now several degrees warmer than it was before, so the shower unit needs to use less electricity to heat the water up.
Heat exchangers of this type are commercially available, but it wouldn’t be beyond the capabililties of a competent DIY enthusiast to make one for himself.
You would need to ensure that the cold water supply had a check-valve to stop warmed water going back to the cold supply.
Your shower unit would also need to be thermostatically controlled. A standard shower unit would simply apply the same amount of energy to the warmer water, resulting in scaldingly hot water output. You might end up having to adjust the temperature manually several times during a shower to compensate for the changes in temperature.
This is very important. Not one of our usual topics, but you really must take heed.
I am sorry to be the bringer of bad news, I am not a scare monger, this is very real! At the beginning of the year, Article-Content-King was hacked, the hackers got all the way to server Admin, but luckily I was also in there too when they were trying to do damage and we managed to lock them out before they could, but still it took a few more days to completely secure the script files.
I was not so lucky with my other server. I had the same script installed several times on that server, and I wasn’t there when they were doing the damage. I lost EVERYTHING ON THE SERVER not just the accounts that were “hackable”.
Through the security hole in this script, every account on the server was lost. The hackers got all the way into server admin created themselves a user. They had the ability to do what ever they wanted and they wanted to destroy the server. I have absolutely no clue why I would be attacked in this way. I think it is just because they managed to get in and took it as far as they could.
Your site (every domain you own) could be at risk from this even if you have secured your script with the patch and even if you do not have the script installed at all. If you have any domains on shared hosting they are at risk. If there is a chance that another user of the same server has an unsafe installation of this script set up, your domains are at risk.
Lets look at what this script is and how it has been marketed in the 3 years since it was first made available. (or is it 4). This script is not really sold to people who want an article directory, it is mainly sold to Internet marketers looking for an easy passive income site. I managed to buy it for $1 on e-bay 2 weeks ago when I first looked at making the patch for the untouched files. People are still reselling it now at least 3 years on.
There is no telling how many people have installed this script over the years and completely forgotten about it. I don’t know about you, but I tend to install all the scripts I get in PLR packages to test them out. I don’t use them all and I don’t (or didn’t) always delete them if I decide not to use them.
Out of the “500″ who originally bought this script as part of sourcecodegold mine, How many have this script installed somewhere forgotten about and how many have done so since? How can you be sure you are safe if someone else on the same server as you hasn’t secured their script? If server admin is compromised then every account is at risk, no matter how secure.
As Online Marketers we all tend to see the same hosting offers, this makes the chance of someone having an insecure script set up somewhere on a shared hosting account even greater! But there is no telling how far and wide this script could be installed, nor is there any real way of you finding out if you are sharing a server with a insecure site.
This is the reality in any case, and one of the main reasons why I do not use shared hosting, but when you know it can happen and do not do anything about it, you do everyone a disservice.
I am really not trying to cause a panic here, but the threat is very real!
We need to get word out about the SecureArticleBeach membership site to everyone who may have this script installed and get them to download the free patch. You won’t really be safe until everyone has.
Please post this message on your blog and let your subscribers and customers know. Even people who have never even heard of this script could be at risk.
Respectfully
Dan Blackburn
Please post this message on your blog, the fix is simple and available free from http://www.SecureArticleBeach.com
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