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Flushing the toilet is the thing to do. Many comply. This is
usually achieved by either a button or lever somewhere
around the rear of the toilet. Closing the toilet lid prior to
flushing is also the thing to do, as suddenly sloshing 10's of
litres of water into a confined space is prone to create
a
potentially poopy aerosol. Many do not comply with the lid
closing section of the protocol.
How about we remove the lever/button and simply link the lid
closing to the flushing? Some form of cam or whatnot ought
to do it. There, now we're spreading a little less crap about
the place.
Aerosol pathogen spread
http://onlinelibrar...2.2005.02610.x/full
[bs0u0155, Nov 04 2014]
Virus Spread
http://www.ncbi.nlm...gov/pubmed/24818773
[bs0u0155, Nov 04 2014]
US 4974263
http://www.google.c...r/patents/US4974263
Lid actuated toilet flushing system [xaviergisz, Nov 10 2014]
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Contact with routine filth strengthens immune systems. |
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The lid does not usually seal, so the aerosol still escapes. |
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Has anyone ever shown that the aerosols created by
loo flushing are in any way harmful or hazardy? |
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worrying sentence from the 2nd link: "cleaning did not seem
to substantially reduce contamination". Like most problems
in life, they were clearly not using enough bleach. |
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Earth closets are cleaner, more hygenic and more environmentally sound. |
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Aerosol, shmearosol, this is genius mostly in its simplicity of
design, but also tangentially as a means of solving up-to 80%
of marital strife. |
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//Earth closets are cleaner, more hygenic and more
environmentally sound// |
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But somewhat challenging in a 37 story building. |
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//solving up-to 80% of marital strife// |
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//Earth closets... in a 37 story building. |
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Looks pretty simple to me, one communal earth closet, and one vertical pipe from each flat. Piezo-electric under the earth closet to turn kinetic into electricity. |
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Cameras at the bottom end of the tubes to quantify each apartment's input and hence allocate electricity refund. Possibly cameras with shape recognition so someone can go fish out the cats/small children who will inevitably end in there. |
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Piezoelectric isn't the way to go. Where would you put the crystals? If
they're at the bottom* then any impact energy would be quickly
absorbed by splat or squished type poop-on-poop effects that would
just end up in slightly warmer waste. Better to have all the residents
consistently eat small, but powerful permanent magnets. Then,
strategically placed coils could harvest energy. |
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Actually I had thought of that, but more like eating lots of iron spherical bits, then using magnetic handling to keep the poop in the centre of the drop tube on the way down, but probably compressed air jets could do the same, without all the iron filings malarky. |
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Whilst thinking those lines I thought of poop with fins/vanes, but I have no how idea how to amend the human body to produce such extrusions. |
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//amend the human body to produce such extrusions// |
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I do, it's based around the technology found in a Play Doh
toy I had as a child. Am not writing it though. |
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But... I always have to check that my turd isn't stuck. |
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//But... I always have to check that my turd isn't stuck// |
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Lift the lid and have a good look. The cistern will still be
filling for a bit anyway. |
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By dint of modifying my diet it has become possible to extrude poo that has exactly the same refractive index as water, so no one else will ever know.. |
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<returns to iron filings in an attempt to make suitable toilet for a maglev train> |
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