In article , Bruce L. Bergman
says...

well, I think I can "bottom that" , so to speak, but not personally - I had
a co-worker years ago who claimed that he had a friend (get the drift of
this) who discovered that in his apt he paid for heat, but not for hot
water. so he got an old car radiator and a fan and ran hot water through it
to heat his place rather than use the electric heat - of course it probably
actually cost 1,000 times as much, but to him it was "free"

That's not nearly as dumb (or expensive) as it sounds IF the
building has a natural gas, propane, oil or coal fired hot water
boiler. And IF the guy reroutes the water back to the cold-water line
for reheating instead of dumping it down the sink.

That sounds like a good way to give the other residents a case
of lead poisoning from the solder in the radiator.

Jim


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