Detail Initial Inefficiency due to Tank Color

the water that went into the water heater. In other words, it made his water heater work less in the wintertime. So, that was kind of cool. We did figure out that just leaving it silver, it would not absorb the heat as much as if you painted it black. So, it wasn't doing anything when we had it sitting beside the wood stove. And I'm talking about maybe, yeah, 4 in from the wood stove, 5 in from the my dad's big wood stove.