Free Water!
Have you noticed that a considerable amount of water is delivered to
your house for free? We call this Rain! It falls partly on your roof,
& is then directed into the drainage system of your property! We
call this waste!
A simple set-up involving a tank & in some cases, a small pump,
which can be run by solar power, can supply, say, your toilet flushing
system at least.
Think about it! You know it makes sense! & if you want any help or advice on this please email me at: doug@greenertechsolar.info
Bye for now!
Friday, 22 March 2013
Wednesday, 20 March 2013
An Easy Way to Save Money!
Hello fellow travellers! This is the first blog on matters of energy self sufficiency since I re-jigged my website, & sorted the best blogging app out: Google Blogger! (yippee!)
And it's not directly about energy! No, it's about water!
So, to begin:
The following are generalisations which will apply to most of us with regard to our housing:
Our house has a roof. Inside our house we have at least 1 toilet. That is usually situated below the lowest level of the roof. We use alot of water each day flushing the toilet, or toilets; water that flows from our supply, which is all potable.
We live in a part of the world which receives a large amount of rain. An appreciable amount of which falls on the roof (To go back to the previous paragraph). It's not necessary to use drinking water to flush a toilet. The toilet is below the rainfall falling on the roof. Water, being heavier than air, falls down, etc. etc.. Am I making sense yet?
So why do we use precious drinking water to flush our toilets when we could be using rainwater, which is in plentiful supply, & present in (usually) over-abundant quantities?
All we need to do is to install, or have a plumber or builder install, a system for catching, containing, & distributing the rainwater to our toilet cisterns.
Not costly, either to install, operate, or maintain. Yet representing an immediate cost-saving to both ourselves, our community, & the planet!
Go on, do it, you know it makes sense!
If you want some advice on this, email me at: doug@greenertech.eu
Bye for now!
And it's not directly about energy! No, it's about water!
So, to begin:
The following are generalisations which will apply to most of us with regard to our housing:
Our house has a roof. Inside our house we have at least 1 toilet. That is usually situated below the lowest level of the roof. We use alot of water each day flushing the toilet, or toilets; water that flows from our supply, which is all potable.
We live in a part of the world which receives a large amount of rain. An appreciable amount of which falls on the roof (To go back to the previous paragraph). It's not necessary to use drinking water to flush a toilet. The toilet is below the rainfall falling on the roof. Water, being heavier than air, falls down, etc. etc.. Am I making sense yet?
So why do we use precious drinking water to flush our toilets when we could be using rainwater, which is in plentiful supply, & present in (usually) over-abundant quantities?
All we need to do is to install, or have a plumber or builder install, a system for catching, containing, & distributing the rainwater to our toilet cisterns.
Not costly, either to install, operate, or maintain. Yet representing an immediate cost-saving to both ourselves, our community, & the planet!
Go on, do it, you know it makes sense!
If you want some advice on this, email me at: doug@greenertech.eu
Bye for now!
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