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Fog Shower Tuesday, December 04, 2007 - Noa Rotkop Home >> Picture Of The Day >> Concepts
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| Joao Diego Schimansky, a student at Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Parana in Brazil, is one of eight finalists in the Electrolux Design Lab 2007 annual global competition. Schimansky designed a concept called "Fog Shower", a showerhead that consumes much less water than conventional showerheads. Conventional shower heads consume 26 liters of water for a five minute shower. By creating a fog of microscopic water droplets, the Fog Shower consumes only two liters of water for a five minute shower. Schimansky's innovative invention could be developed to provide us with an enjoyable way to cut down our daily water consumption. | ||||||||||
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The Fog Shower reduces water consumption immensely by creating a vapor flow with microscopic water droplets. The water is heated and sent under pressure to an ultrasonic vaporizer, and is then forced through perforated metal plates. An intelligent sensor system aims the water vapor in different angles, depending on the movements of the person showering. Schimansky believes that his eco-design manages to provide comfort and convenience while reducing negative impact on the environment. He points out that the Fog Shower is different than existing devices, which have to compensate for the inconvenience of the reduced water flow by increasing the water flow's aeration. The Fog Shower can utilize renewable energy sources, such as solar or wind power. In addition, the device saves energy simply because less water needs to be heated. Schimansky commented that “I also considered the fact that several places in the world already suffer from a lack of water and that this situation will probably get worse, which will also aggravate the energy waste.” TFOT recently covered a discovery made by scientists at the University of Illinois, who found a new way to produce water from unlikely materials such as alcohols. Another water-related invention covered by TFOT is the “Life Saver”, a bottle installed with a mechanism capable of purifying even the dirtiest water, eliminating foul tastes and smells from the liquid within seconds. More information on the Fog Shower is available at Electrolux Design Lab's website. |
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Are you kidding me? That's simple. Any combustion of alcohol produces heat, co2, and water. That's because you put the water into making the alcohol (and it's easily convertible both ways) What the hell was uncovered? |
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| This reminds me of low yield toilets. Seems like an obvious idea until you plumb it up and realize that it doesnt quite get the job done. | |||
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| for peats sake what does it cost to filter all the water to make this work | |||
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| Fuller put a mister shower-replacement in his Dymaxion House, designed in the 1930's. I guess he was about 70 years ahead of his time ... | |||
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Will it be easy to breath? There\'s a disease if you breath water vapor to long, it will be bad for your lung. what is it called again? |
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| The risk for people who shower instead of take a bath, to contract http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legionellosis has always been higher. This seems to be a good way of increasing that risk. | |||
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| ..that we refer to diseases solely by their wikipedia address. I wonder how long before entire sentences will just be formed from a series of uninterrupted url's. | |||
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| That is so simple. Crazy at the same time. And brilliant! | |||
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It's funny because I hate getting out of the shower cold and freezing my butt off during the winter and I was thinking of a steam shower that could save water. Ie you turn off the water, scrub, and then rinse without the air being freezing. I have thought of something exactly like this...just not so complex. Huzzah! |
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Id rather my normal full powered shower http://dzrbenson.com/blog/ |
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| maybe i have poor eyesight but cant see a price |