From: Impedance@UgotOCD.invalid   
      
   I add some gasoline and it heats the water faster and with less electricity   
   than ever before. Match and set?   
      
      
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   > It is best to heat a small electric immersion element in a hot water   
   > cylinder. Pedal power will not produce that much electricity.  Hot water   
   > is needed all year around.   
      
   I wouldn't even bother with the conversion to electricity, just driving a   
   water pump with pedals will heat the water by friction, hence those   
   "fuel-less heater" scam videos on Youtube. I found this out the hard way   
   when I was overdriving a Maytag washing machine drain pump that had the hose   
   hooked to form a loop with a 1/3rd horsepower motor that had a large pulley   
   on it, the water got hot, expanded, blew off the hose, and gave me 2nd and   
   spotty 3rd degree scald burns on my lower left leg.  A couple of cups of   
   water tends to heat up fast when you are putting the better part of 250   
   watts into it.   
      
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