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マッサージボール massage balls
回転いす kaiten isu rotating seat
排水 haisui drainage/wastewater
石けんすい sekkensui soapy water
超音波 chōonpa ultrasound/ultrasonic waves
温風 onpū hot air
湯 yu hot water
I have acquired blurry kanji reading superpowers.
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You are right that for able bodied people it's at best a gimmick. But it might be useful for people with limited mobility, who don't want to depend on other people washing them.
Safely getting into and out of it looks very challenging for people with limited mobility. But the article's final photo is of completely different model - far more accessible, far safer, and for "the health care sector".
A normal model would just sit on the floor.
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Your vision lacks the ultimate destination: This will replace the bed.
That sounds like that one guy a few years ago who wanted to replace all kitchen cupboards with dishwashers. Gonna steer clear of those directions. All things in moderation, etc.
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I think this works. You can buy two small dishwashers, keep clean stuff in one, dirty in the other, then run the dirty one and swap. Or you can also just have one plate and wash it by hand after every meal.
Need to triple buffer or there’s a condition where you have used a plate from the clean pile, but the dirty wash is still running. You’d just have to stand there in the kitchen like some kind of Sims character.
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A nominal water aerator limits water around 5L-6L/min levels. For every minute I don't use the water, I spend approximately two full kettles of water. With every 5L of water I can - Cook 4 servings (~400 grams) of pasta. - Brew 5L of tea/coffee - Water all the plants at home two times. - Possibly wash most of my handwash-only dishes in one go. - etc. So it's not not meaningfully wasteful . However, I can't turn off t…
Water is by far the most abundant resource on the planet (70+% of earth is water), and we have methods to remove salt and contaminants from almost all of it. We can even turn urine into drinking water. I wouldn’t worry about wasting it. We’ll die from something else long before water becomes an issue.
https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/all-earths-water-a-single-...
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Yeah, but getting rid of chemicals and returning it to a non-poisonous state for the nature is a big plus. You can't dump everything to the soil and say "that's your problem now, nature. Cope!".
Assuming you use the same amount of soap and what nots, and get the same amount of dirt and debris off your body, the more water you use during a shower, the easier it is to process the water at your sewage treatment plant, if your waste water is treated. If your waste water isn't treated, and is discharged to water ways as-is, the more water you use, the more dilute your pollution. If you've got a septic system, I d…
It's easier to process per litre, but it is easier to process in absolute numbers?