Fille has long hair, and correspondingly long showers. I come to the conclusion that, hstorically, long hair is in fact a status symbol, which says, look at me, someone can spare a lot of resources to look after me.
The rest of us take about 5 minutes in the shower. "Navy showers" not an option with our system because it takes such a long time to run hot. Cold showers are not an option for me while the weather remains below 40 degC: I turn blue and start to want to kill people.
RenewableCandy wrote:Fille has long hair, and correspondingly long showers. I come to the conclusion that, hstorically, long hair is in fact a status symbol, which says, look at me, someone can spare a lot of resources to look after me.
Or look at me, I haven't been near a hairdresser for years .
No shower here!
A strip wash twice a day and a shared Bath twice a week.
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You also need to take into consideration how the water is delivered to the shower head. Electricity or gravity? Electric showers will tend to deliver more water as well as use lecky.
Ours is gravity and is at the low end of water volume delivery. But I want a shower, not a water cannon.
I experience pleasure and pains, and pursue goals in service of them, so I cannot reasonably deny the right of other sentient agents to do the same - Steven Pinker
I only realised recently that the temperature in an electric shower is controlled by the water flow rate. So, if you turn the temp. Up, it reduces the water flow, thus increasing the temperature, and vice-versa. The amount of elecricity used is the same, unless you turn it down to the low power or economy setting.
During the summers, when the ambient temp. Of the water was higher, we were struggling to keep the shower temp low enough, until we figured out to turn it to the lower setting. Doh!!
Yes...but I've yet to find an electric shower that delivered too much hot water. We have one, but it's really only used occasionally (boiler breakdown, guests using main shower, etc) or in high summer. It uses 1 unit of leccy in about 5 minutes...and at a rate far exceeding that which the roof can produce
That prog. where they had cyclists generating the lecky for a house - it was serious when someone in the house used the shower! A real 'o-oh' moment.
I experience pleasure and pains, and pursue goals in service of them, so I cannot reasonably deny the right of other sentient agents to do the same - Steven Pinker
Yeah, that was an eye-opener! IIRC they had about 80 competition cyclists, some resting while others cycled, then, when someone in the house used something that required a lot of power, the cyclists had to all leap on and pedal like mad. They had loads of food and drink to keep them all going all day. Made me think about how incredibly cheap and energy-dense our fossil fuels are. We're very lucky (spoilt) to live in this age.
I remember seeing that. It really brought home to me the importance of spreading the load through the day, rather than trying to use everything at once.
Good illustration of the idea that living in the oil age is like having 200 slaves!
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