Toilet Thermodynamics And Other Weird Stuff

Treehugger.com:

In the game of thermostat chicken, Turboglacier is holding a lead. The blogger from Portland, Maine, has not yet turned on the heating. The "crackpot" title relates to Turboglacier's penchant for musing on the condition of the unheated human. Hoping not to see his name and the word "crackpot" in the same sentence again, Turboglacier has resigned himself to discontinue posting on the "topic of home-heating/cold-adaptation/practical thermodynamics". But he leaves us with one last thought: on the topic of toilet thermodynamics.

If you ever wanted (or just discovered you want) to learn just how much energy it takes to heat the cold water which comes into your house with every flush, Turboglacier answers. And he provides a handy formula for calculating the case in your own household.

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Comments

[pokemon]

I want to see calculations on the amount of energy our crap would produce if burned or something.

[JuniorNorman]

This is garbage.
They could WARN US ABOUT the CO-OP RAID!
SWAT RAIDS ORGANIC FOOD CO-OP
On December 1st, a heavily armed SWAT team raided an Ohio family's home, rounded up the entire family and held them on a sofa at gun point for 9 hours... Adults, toddlers and infants alike. The SWAT team was exercising a warrant sworn out at the behest of the Ohio Department of Agriculture (who were also represented during the raid) for the egregious crime of running a retail establishment without a license. You see the Stower family has operated a well-known organic food coop out of their western Cleveland home for years. This is apparently the latest in a string of SWAT raids that appears aimed at cracking down on Amish and traditional farmers for allegedly distributing traditionally raised farm products outside of the regulatory process. Those targeted claim that it is an attempt to persecute small family farms in favor of large corporate industrial farms. After a long string of tainted meat recalls by corporate farm operations, how much more dangerous could this truly be?

[pokemon]

Or perhaps one idiot took out the warrant so us police had to follow the warrant. Don't paint us to be stupid, were not. We have some people here that are doing the same thing, Amish make a great living here selling the home-made food and we do not bother with it. More than likely there is more to it like taxes (ours do not pay it either)