Re:Why America Is Losing the Toilet Race
by shirakawasuna on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @12:39AM
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Bidets use less water than it takes to make the toilet paper Americans use to excess.
True, everything is an improvement on the current English-derived norm. Grey water systems would help, but are expensive, particularly to retrofit.
Re:Why America Is Losing the Toilet Race
by coderintherye on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @01:05AM
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Sanergy has something along those lines http://www.sanergy.com/
However, I don't think that model fits the American mentality well. One more likely scenario would be the electric or gas powered combustion toilets: https://shop.ecojohn.com/products/tinyjohn-waterless-inciner... https://incinolet.com/
You see these in places where fresh water may be scarce or sewage treatment limited, e.g. a small live-aboard boat.
But it's really a question of what you want to optimize for.
As others have said though, a great easy addition to the current American toilet is adding a bidet.
It's one of the more interesting if unsexy engineering problems I guess. You mention small boats - composting toilets are making inroads there too.
I happen to live in the bush with a composter. As I'm also on rainwater, which was damn scarce earlier this summer, flushing toilets make me cringe.
If you then centralize the composters, for efficiency, the you really have something.
I have this strange fascination with pneumatic tube systems (I wish we used them for everything). I think we just found a new use case.
Re:Why America Is Losing the Toilet Race
by DonHopkins on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @02:24AM
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Then you'll just love Brazil!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teufz17PqoY
Composting toilets at urban scale - now that would be tech worthy of the 21st century.