"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
2012 Invention Awards: A Recirculating Shower
"Taking a shower draws more water and more energy than any other daily household activity. Low-flow showerheads save only a little of both, typically at the expense of comfort. That’s because they let the hot water—and all the heat energy it contains—go down the drain."
- Login to post comments
Comments
This wins the Rube Goldberg award.
It is stunning how much time a person will spend to waste their time on trivia when there is a much simpler way to achieve the same goal, get wet, shut the shower off, wash then rinse. Wow. All that human potential gone down the drain.
What Paul is talking about here is a Popular Science site about recycled bathing water.