And here I thought I was being clever. Thanks for sharing! That was great.
Wow. I never thought of bottling and selling water.
Was surprised xkcd didn’t mention steam boiler turbines.
Wow. I never thought of bottling and selling water.
ah. yes. the nestle way.
What does that have to do with water pressure? In that system, the energy comes from the heat.
True – it would require a external heat source (wood, gas, coal, concentrated solar, etc) to boil water for turbine generated electricity.
Why is it necessary for the water to go up and down to turn the turbine? Isn’t the pressure already added to the water and you can directly use it to drive a heavier turbine at ground level?
Second, as you can probably guess by looking at the above picture, pumping the water up 40 meters with water pressure and then back down doesn’t accomplish anything—you can just hook the faucet up to your device, and let the water pressure drive the generator directly.
Turns out: nothing really.
Nice to know that someone already did the math (the monster math!)
That’s a really stupid way to do it, you connect the water turbine directly to the faucet. Why water all the tap water pressure.
You didn’t read past the first paragraph.
you can just hook the faucet up to your device, and let the water pressure drive the generator directly. In either case, for a bathtub faucet, this works out to almost 200 watts, or $25 per month
Though what you could do is place small turbines in your piping so that any time you use your water for normal uses, it would generate some electricity at the cost of a loss of pressure once it passes through. Though it would be more efficient to just turn down the pumps generating that pressure to the new pressure setting and using the electricity saved there (if you are the one running the pump, water included in rent would transfer some energy to you but lose some overall).
You would be that asshole who ruined it for everyone else.
Not to mention considering most water pressure in… well, any country. They may be able to charge their phone and run a lamp at best.
No tv, no water heater, no fridge, no ac or heat, no white noise fans to fall asleep to.
Wth water running 24/7 there’s no need for a white noise machine any more, just listen to the water.
That is a very good point.
If they don’t punish you specifically they’ll punish everyone with you.
This is a great comment. Only January and this is my comment of the year (so far).
You’d be an asshole.
An asshole to whom exactly? A landlord?
Also this is a shower thought. What’s with this moral crusade?
Think of it this way; 70% of the planet is water. Of that water only 2.5% is fresh water, 68% of that is held in glaciers. About 1% of the fresh water on earth is liquid.
That 1% is the absolute maximum quantity of what’s used for drinking, and the steps between ground/reservoir water and the tap in your home involve MASSIVE quantities of electricity and effort to make it so it won’t kill you.
What you’re suggesting doing is turning the tap on and sending that fresh drinkable water right back into the sewer to generate a miniscule amount of power, since the average tap pressure at 1 bar means you’ll be making sub 100W of power, hardly enough to power the big light in your kitchen if it’s got more than two incandescent bulbs or spotlights, let alone a kettle or a microwave.
What aren’t you understanding? The water is free to them
By this definition, let me guess, you also think the fine folks over at Nestle are assholes too?
Tap for spoiler
If we ever do make it to the riots stage, I hope we can all agree Nestle goes first.
You are the one who isn’t understanding but yeah, fuck Nestle!
Lol I understand it perfectly, I was joking
It’s like they say: Comedy is hard.
I mean, to be fair, my writing may not have been funny to you, but it didn’t leave any room for whether or not I understood.
spoiler
But water isn’t a human right, that’s the job of datacenters!
You guys get nestle, meta is mine.
He’d be an asshole because he’d need loads of water he would waste
Depends. If you’re in a metropolitan city modern condo, there’s a good chance water is provided for all by the condo corp. The condo corp pays the city and adjusts the yearly budgets accordingly, which are then used to determine condo fees. So indirectly every resident pays for the water.
You could stick a windmill on top of your car and build up power as you drive to go faster if you drive faster
Thank you for the laugh (⁀ᗢ⁀)
Most apartments with water included in the rent price (Sorry kids, there’s no such thing as “free water”) closely monitor their usage on a per building or floor basis. Whenever they detect irregularities they schedule inspections with the tenants to check for things like leaking toilet valves and such.
“free water” just means that they’ve calculated the cost of installing the meters and additional plumbing and determined that monitoring global usage and including it in the price of rent is cheaper.
Source: I have water included in my rent, I pay about $50 more a month than a similar apartment without.
When I moved to Tennessee a few years back I looked all over trying to figure out where our gas bill was. Water/electric/sewage/internet, I actually got through one company now which is kinda neat, but our heater is natural gas, and I haven’t been billed for it yet, which never makes sense to me. I keep wondering if the management company just covers it or something, but I should see a usage bill I would figure somewhere…
Small towns don’t manage much though. They came by to do an inspection a couple months ago and I was like oh shit, they had not stopped by since I moved in back in 2021. (Guess a new management company absorbed them). I’ve got a chicken coop and put chicken wire up around about 1,000+ square foot and I was wondering what they were going to say about it. They never ended up even going out back. Next year’s problem I guess.
I bought a house two years ago and had a plumber come out to install a new water heater. He asked me where the water meter was and I had to say “fuck if I know”. He said lots of people just let their water account lapse and then remove the meter and tap directly into the water line in the street and get free water. He assumed that the previous owner of my house had done this; I was pondering whether this was a bad thing or not when he found the actual water meter out in the yard under a metal cover. Good news? Probably not – it turns out my house water is supplied by a very cheap independent local water authority, but they had to go into bankruptcy along with the city and apparently some Saudis are planning to buy it to provide water to grow alfalfa for their racehorses.
Oh shit, mine gives me free heat…I could just strap a Stirling engine to my radiator!
Or peltier modules
For high rises, why not stick a turbine on the outlet for waste water at the bottom of the building? You’ve already spent the energy to pump it up dozens of floors why not recoup some of it when it falls back down?
Think harder next time. They’ll be able to figure out that you’re not filling an Olympic sized pool every week and water/sewer use that excessive is gonna be a breach of contract aka eviction.
Mine used to give me free water and natural gas. I filled my waterbed with hot water when I moved in.
Years later, they changed it over so that the whole building was metered and the price was divided.
That’s a legal. Metered utilities can be either included in the rent, or metered on a per unit basis. In this setup, if your neighbor uses a lot of utilities your bill will go up. That’s why this is illegal.
looking into my state code, it’s legal if it’s in the lease and they did ammend the lease on renewal to include it.
Morale? no. Legal here? it would appear to be.
It’s illegal everywhere in the world?
Seems an odd thing to come together on
You’ll be using less water than an AI data centre
Also consider running cold water through some sort of radiator if you want free AC
Best fucking idea ever!
If you ever get free gas too, I have an idea for a wind turbine.
Free gas? You (and nearly everyone else on earth) are walking around in and breathing loads of it right now.
Some apartments have natural gas including with the price of rent.
Odd. The gas I walk around in is all natural and completely free. It’s not even listed on my rent, though it’d be pretty odd if it was.
Well I can say from experience that your landlord won’t be happy, but as long as it doesnt say a limit in your lease there’s nothing they can do about it.
Their ain’t a lease in the country that doesn’t give a complex the right to toss you out for generic reasons.
And you could waste your time in court, but you’d lose.
Also, “unlimited” contracts always have a clause where they can block you if you misuse the service or use way more than an acceptable quantity.
Maybe on some other planet, where success is deemed as failure and they all have USB ports for genitals.
