Many electronic descalers are available at many different prices. They are supposed to protect you central heating boilers etc from limescale. I live in a hard water area and I am considering buying one, but want to know if they actually do anything.
2006-10-03 00:32:10 · 6 answers · asked by Graham A 2 in Home & Garden ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
Electronic ones are better than the magnetic type. Yes, they do work with varying degrees of success. Bear in mind, they do not soften the water. They just make to calcium 'softer' so it does not form a hard scale. If you want soft water, the only way is to fit a water softener.
2006-10-03 00:48:03 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
You'd also have to mine the metal ores and get oil to produce plastics and energy for the manufacturing. The only way an electric car is 'green', is if it is charged off renewable energy sources, such as solar, wind etc. Again wind turbines and solar panels have to be put together somewhere. Wind turbines are a simple design, metalwork fabrication, but solar panels include silica, dug from the earth. The point is, that once you made the solar panels or wind turbine, they don't consume oil, gas or coal to produce power.In that way it is helping the environment. For a hybrid car to be truly 'green', you have to use bio-fuels produced using renewable energy or (if a diesel) consume recycled vegetable oils either as via a straight vegetable oil conversion or (with a little basic chemistry) as bio-diesel, which is chemically the same as the oil derived version and will work in any diesel engine, new or old, without modifications, such as fuel line/tank heaters. One thing to remember, is that the battery pack may wear out or malfunction before the end of its life, so contains chemicals that would need transporting to be recycled. My choice would be a standard diesel car. In pure MPG terms, they are not far off what a hybrid can return, with no problems about battery packs not lasting as long as they should or simply failing.In most hybrids, if the hybrid battery pack is flat, you cannot start the car!
2016-03-27 03:06:59 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the short term, (about 2hours) yes. The molecular shifts they create wear off after 2 hours or so, thus they would be ok for an electric shower, but not on stored water like your hot tank.
2006-10-03 00:56:26 · answer #3 · answered by johncob 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I bought one a few years ago. My husband (who is a scientist) read the information explaining how it worked thought it had no basis in fact. We had it connected for a while but I noticed no difference in the water.
2006-10-03 00:36:26 · answer #4 · answered by joolsbabe17 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A magnet around the pipes indeed seems to have effect on the calcium in water... Not sure about electronic ones...
2006-10-03 00:36:41 · answer #5 · answered by Walter W. Krijthe 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
yes it does I got mine from screwfix.com
2006-10-03 01:19:55 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋