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I wonder if there’s a side market trade of shower minutes. Some people will feel more strongly about cleanliness than others, perhaps they’d be willing to sell or trade shower time..
Why take showers at all? A large bath filled with warm water that could be sterilized regularly would be far more luxurious and last quite a long time. Also pro tip: to maximize water you need a mister type shower head that sprays smaller droplets, which gets you far wetter and is more efficient than a regular rain type shower. Bladerunner 2049 featured such a shower and I think a longer running version of that for A…
Do you have to use an ID card to access your allocation, does it cut the water off?
Is there a tap for washing hands, is that limited too?
Toilets?
...why not just have a nuclear reactor to provide an infinite heat source? Submarines at the bottom of ocean have more shower time than south pole stations.
But there must be several areas of geothermal power. The idea is to make no changes, or to mine resources, but if there’s wind turbines set up, near McMurdo, that has concrete footings.
Heh, I read “mega shower” as “merge shower” and was expected a joke about showering with a colleague to expand time
I come from a country that is generally considered very open-minded about nudity, and having a communal shower with your colleagues after your shift (gender-separated, mind you) is considered absolutely normal in jobs that get you dirty.
And even if you are a prude, I really wonder why no-one has considered sharing a shower or sponge-bath with a colleague or two in swim-shorts. It's more unhygienic than showering naked, yes, but I would still consider this miles better than taking no shower at all for days at a time.
Or maybe the showers described are indeed communal, and they just noticed that squeezing two people below one spout is just not a efficient way to shower and does not actually save that much water...
"Every 14 days: 480.2 seconds. That’s 8 minutes (!!!), 0.2 seconds. Congratulations! You’ve scrounged and saved, and you’ve managed to accrue enough shower-seconds to take an average American shower! You’ve sacrificed your health, well-being, social life, and potential future job prospects, but you can enjoy a truly obscene amount of shower, guilt-free." I'm a bit sceptical about the "sacrificed your health" part, I…
If I was living down there, I'd chose the interval approach, taking oportunistic showers to manage smell :-D
Why take showers at all? A large bath filled with warm water that could be sterilized regularly would be far more luxurious and last quite a long time. Also pro tip: to maximize water you need a mister type shower head that sprays smaller droplets, which gets you far wetter and is more efficient than a regular rain type shower. Bladerunner 2049 featured such a shower and I think a longer running version of that for A…
But as the surrounding is subzero, wouldn't the water just instantly become cold?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Did anyone ever engineer the shower heads to reduce the GPM and thus, increase their shower time?
Someone made an even better solution, surprised it's not used at the South pole actually! Originally developed for the ISS, this shower system filters and recycles shower water, saving both water and energy! https://orbital-systems.com/