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New, slippery toilet coating provides cleaner flushing, saves water

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Re: New, slippery toilet coating provides cleaner flushing, saves water

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Post by robocat »

birgitt wrote: post #15

Hi Everyone! Birgitt here from spotLESS Materials -- we are commercializing this technology and some of the authors of the Nature Sustainability paper are part of our team. I'll try answering some of the questions I'm seeing. Would love to hear your feedback! Check out our products at: https://www.spotlessmaterials.com/shop Check out the full research article here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-019-0421-0#ci…

Will the coating break down in a Septic tank?

My parents use roof water, which is a limited supply so this product would be a great help, but they would be sceptical of any product that could harm the microbiology of the septic tank or that could harm the soil from the overflow.

I imagine they would prefer some sort of scientific facts rather than just marketing blurb (they are quite biologically geeky!)

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otakucode wrote: post #86
birgitt wrote: post #15

Hi Everyone! Birgitt here from spotLESS Materials -- we are commercializing this technology and some of the authors of the Nature Sustainability paper are part of our team. I'll try answering some of the questions I'm seeing. Would love to hear your feedback! Check out our products at: https://www.spotlessmaterials.com/shop Check out the full research article here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-019-0421-0#ci…

Is the coating food-safe without the lubricant? I have wanted a superhydrophobic+superoligophobic coating for dishes since I learned of the existence of such nanocoatings, but I haven't seen any that are durable and/or regarded as food safe.

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Re: New, slippery toilet coating provides cleaner flushing, saves water

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Post by totalZero »

johnpowell wrote: post #90
birgitt wrote: post #15

Hi Everyone! Birgitt here from spotLESS Materials -- we are commercializing this technology and some of the authors of the Nature Sustainability paper are part of our team. I'll try answering some of the questions I'm seeing. Would love to hear your feedback! Check out our products at: https://www.spotlessmaterials.com/shop Check out the full research article here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-019-0421-0#ci…

Time to get gross here. I have been dealing with neck/mouth cancer for a while and using a feeding tube for about half of my calories. My movements, depending on the alignment of the stars resemble the mortar used to join cinder blocks together. It is explosive and sticks to the bowl. I can flush ten times and it doesn't budge and I have to manually get in there. So I am going to try this. It is cheap enough and even…

I wish you lots of strength and an abundance of good luck.

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Post by baroffoos »

birgitt wrote: post #15

Hi Everyone! Birgitt here from spotLESS Materials -- we are commercializing this technology and some of the authors of the Nature Sustainability paper are part of our team. I'll try answering some of the questions I'm seeing. Would love to hear your feedback! Check out our products at: https://www.spotlessmaterials.com/shop Check out the full research article here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-019-0421-0#ci…

How did you test the product during development? Did you have to take a shit on it after every iteration or did you have some kind of replica shit that could be used?

Re: New, slippery toilet coating provides cleaner flushing, saves water

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Post by iamtheworstdev »

All of the money people save on their water bill can now be put aside for their annual call to the plumber as you'll likely end up clogging your pipes. Not enough water in every flush means you'll end up with a blockage at some point because the feces was never irrigated out of your pipes to the street.

Re: New, slippery toilet coating provides cleaner flushing, saves water

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Post by shortandsweet »

johnpowell wrote: post #103
shortandsweet wrote: post #100

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Try a parachute. Put some to down in the water before you let loose.

Sadly, we are dealing with a Jackson Pollock situation.

I had to look it up... Haha.

Have you tried a space toilet?

And I know you mentioned a feeding tube, can they add fiber in your diet somehow? I used to get similar issues while not eating enough fiber.

Any forums of people with similar conditions that could recommend solutions?

Best of luck.

Re: New, slippery toilet coating provides cleaner flushing, saves water

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Post by shortandsweet »

johnpowell wrote: post #103
shortandsweet wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Try a parachute. Put some to down in the water before you let loose.

Sadly, we are dealing with a Jackson Pollock situation.

I just thought of another idea. A lot of times public bathrooms will have a disposable, flushable, parchment paper that can be placed on the seat and a flap leads down to the water. If you were to have 4 of these flaps instead of 1 I think it would protect the bowl enough.

Re: New, slippery toilet coating provides cleaner flushing, saves water

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Post by atwebb »

hanniabu wrote: post #19

Why don't we use grey water to flush toilets? It can use water either from the bathroom sink or shower.

I've seen where the tank top is a handwashing station. There is a faucet on top and a small basin in the tank top, when you flush, the inlet is connected to the faucet. You wash and the soap water goes into the tank for use on the next flush.

Re: New, slippery toilet coating provides cleaner flushing, saves water

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Post by kevin_thibedeau »

catalogia wrote: post #88
war1025 wrote: post #83

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We had a well growing up, and I think we always just considered the water free. Though we did have a water softener, so I suppose there was the cost of salt for that. Similar to water heating though, I think we didn't really factor that into the cost of the water.

The depth of the well is a huge factor, generally the deeper the well the harder it is to pump water out of it. There is also the matter of how fast the well will replentish. Shallow wells into unconfined aquifers in regions with plenty of rainfall are probably the best sort of wells. Those sort of wells get replenished every year (climate permitting.) On the other hand with fossil aquifers you're draining a finite a…

Works great until the farmer next door sucks your shallow well dry with his new irrigation system.
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