Also consider running cold water through some sort of radiator if you want free AC
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stiffyGlitch’s mum should have her own category on PornHub
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wait why are we talking about my mum
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Maybe on some other planet, where success is deemed as failure and they all have USB ports for genitals.
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.
Unlikely, but if any main power lines run past your walls or floor where they are regularly carrying substantial current, you can probably use a wire coil to light an led or something.
Oh shit, mine gives me free heat…I could just strap a Stirling engine to my radiator!
Or peltier modules
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).
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.
Stupid question.
NOT a shower thought.
OP is a dipshit verbatim ripping off an XKCD video no way in hell they came up with it themselves BTW.
I feel pretty confident they were in the shower when they thought about this question.
It may not be the kind you like but it (most likely) meets the community rules definition.
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?
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.
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⁀)
Love this article, but they kinda bury the lede making the Coca-cola joke about bottling and selling water.
Most bottled water you buy in stores is, in fact, tap water. If you think they’re getting it from a mountain spring, even if there’s a mountain on the label, you would be mistaken. You wouldn’t want mountain water (with bear piss) anyway, the water you buy bottled is filtered and treated. It’s good tap water, but it’s still tap water. So next time your water bottle runs out, just refill it from the tap. Assuming your tap water is potable and doesn’t taste like shit.
I grew up drinking mountain spring water. It’s way better than “bear piss”. Filtered and treated doesn’t mean better. Some natural water from springs is perfectly fine.
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He says all mountain spring water is bear piss. I say some is good. You downvote. classic fediverse.
I definitely want mountain water, it’s delicious. 100x better than any bottled water.
The flavor is E. coli
That’s only correct if it’s labeled as “purified water.” If it says “spring water,” then it came from a mountain spring.
The thing about being bottled at the source, is that it’s upstream from all the “bear piss.”
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.
And here I thought I was being clever. Thanks for sharing! That was great.
And either way, eventually someone from the city would probably show up to ask why you’re using 40 tons of water every day.
lol
Wow. I never thought of bottling and selling water.
Was surprised xkcd didn’t mention steam boiler turbines.
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.
Wow. I never thought of bottling and selling water.
ah. yes. the nestle way.
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.
