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Re:Mist Showers: Sustainable Decadence? (2019) by choeger on Saturday December 17, 2022 @07:18AM (#34027136)
The author seems to neglect that heat from the water like the water itself can and should be recycled.

Ideally, taking a hot bath or a long shower should just be a different form of heating your apartment or house. The same way your refrigerator or your kettle should contribute to the room temperature. If we then also generate heat with heatpumps or solar power (or both), I don't see any reason to not indulge in long showers.

Re:Mist Showers: Sustainable Decadence? (2019) by morsch on Saturday December 17, 2022 @07:33AM (#34027220)
I guess leaving the water in the tub is an easy way to reclaim the heat, but is there any place where the same is done to shower water (or all waste water) on a large scale? Maybe arctic research stations?
Re:Mist Showers: Sustainable Decadence? (2019) by jhoechtl on Saturday December 17, 2022 @07:50AM (#34027314)
The warm bathwater humidity will make your walls moldy!
Re:Mist Showers: Sustainable Decadence? (2019) by morsch on Saturday December 17, 2022 @08:20AM (#34027518)
Or help save additional energy otherwise expended on an air humidifier...
Re:Mist Showers: Sustainable Decadence? (2019) by dzhiurgis on Saturday December 17, 2022 @10:09AM (#34028350)
IMO if you have heat pump water heater, recycling dirty water would be good albeit complex way to reclaim the heat.