Post by admin on Oct 1, 2009 12:32:34 GMT -5
My friend manages about 4,000 rental units. Not personally, but his company does.
Anyway...he mentioned to me that the buildings that had a good mix of Asian and non-Asian families could get away with having a much smaller hot water heater because the Asian families mostly showered at night and the non-Asian families mostly showered in the morning.
The smaller water heater was OK because peak demand was 1/2 what you might expect for a non-mixed building. A smaller water heater means less energy consumption (and less material for manufacturing as well).
When social demands (freedom from housing discrimination) and environmental demands (energy use, pollution, resourse depletion) clash, what's going to give?
Anyway...he mentioned to me that the buildings that had a good mix of Asian and non-Asian families could get away with having a much smaller hot water heater because the Asian families mostly showered at night and the non-Asian families mostly showered in the morning.
The smaller water heater was OK because peak demand was 1/2 what you might expect for a non-mixed building. A smaller water heater means less energy consumption (and less material for manufacturing as well).
When social demands (freedom from housing discrimination) and environmental demands (energy use, pollution, resourse depletion) clash, what's going to give?
Anyway, I don't know how much I'd rely on the correlation between diversity and going green. Interesting, though. 
