You could stick a windmill on top of your car and build up power as you drive to go faster if you drive faster
Thank you for the laugh (⁀ᗢ⁀)
Mine used to give me free water and natural gas. I filled my waterbed with hot water when I moved in.
Years later, they changed it over so that the whole building was metered and the price was divided.
That’s a legal. Metered utilities can be either included in the rent, or metered on a per unit basis. In this setup, if your neighbor uses a lot of utilities your bill will go up. That’s why this is illegal.
looking into my state code, it’s legal if it’s in the lease and they did ammend the lease on renewal to include it.
Morale? no. Legal here? it would appear to be.
Turns out: nothing really.
You would be that asshole who ruined it for everyone else.
Not to mention considering most water pressure in… well, any country. They may be able to charge their phone and run a lamp at best.
No tv, no water heater, no fridge, no ac or heat, no white noise fans to fall asleep to.
Wth water running 24/7 there’s no need for a white noise machine any more, just listen to the water.
Love this article, but they kinda bury the lede making the Coca-cola joke about bottling and selling water.
Most bottled water you buy in stores is, in fact, tap water. If you think they’re getting it from a mountain spring, even if there’s a mountain on the label, you would be mistaken. You wouldn’t want mountain water (with bear piss) anyway, the water you buy bottled is filtered and treated. It’s good tap water, but it’s still tap water. So next time your water bottle runs out, just refill it from the tap. Assuming your tap water is potable and doesn’t taste like shit.
I definitely want mountain water, it’s delicious. 100x better than any bottled water.
I grew up drinking mountain spring water. It’s way better than “bear piss”. Filtered and treated doesn’t mean better. Some natural water from springs is perfectly fine.
And either way, eventually someone from the city would probably show up to ask why you’re using 40 tons of water every day.
lol
And here I thought I was being clever. Thanks for sharing! That was great.
Wow. I never thought of bottling and selling water.
Was surprised xkcd didn’t mention steam boiler turbines.
Wow. I never thought of bottling and selling water.
ah. yes. the nestle way.
You’d be an asshole.
An asshole to whom exactly? A landlord?
Also this is a shower thought. What’s with this moral crusade?
Think of it this way; 70% of the planet is water. Of that water only 2.5% is fresh water, 68% of that is held in glaciers. About 1% of the fresh water on earth is liquid.
That 1% is the absolute maximum quantity of what’s used for drinking, and the steps between ground/reservoir water and the tap in your home involve MASSIVE quantities of electricity and effort to make it so it won’t kill you.
What you’re suggesting doing is turning the tap on and sending that fresh drinkable water right back into the sewer to generate a miniscule amount of power, since the average tap pressure at 1 bar means you’ll be making sub 100W of power, hardly enough to power the big light in your kitchen if it’s got more than two incandescent bulbs or spotlights, let alone a kettle or a microwave.
What aren’t you understanding? The water is free to them
By this definition, let me guess, you also think the fine folks over at Nestle are assholes too?
Tap for spoiler
If we ever do make it to the riots stage, I hope we can all agree Nestle goes first.
You are the one who isn’t understanding but yeah, fuck Nestle!
Lol I understand it perfectly, I was joking
It’s like they say: Comedy is hard.
To the people their arbitrage would harm because it would result in the landlord ending the free water provision. If you abuse a good thing, even the most good-natured people eventually get fed up and stop providing it, to the detriment of those who used it fairly.
He’d be an asshole because he’d need loads of water he would waste
