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Originally Posted by alohaspirit
The Quench Shower system, originating in Australia, involves a two-step process – the first being a regular shower where you soap up and rinse off, and the second in which you allow the shower basin to fill up and then let the Quench system recycle and reheat that water perpetually. So you can enjoy as long a shower as you like without using any more water.
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Sorry, I just don't see the benefit here. The vast majority of the ecological impact of showering comes from the water heating phase, not the water delivery phase. Even in drought-striken areas, toilet flushing and clothes washing each consume almost as much as showering, and lawn watering is more than double.
[1] Furthermore, irrigation and thermoelectric consumption dwarfs residential consumption of water.
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The advantage here seems to be that it doesn't have to heat the water quite as much, though you still lose a lot of heat to evaporative cooling on the way down.
I have serious doubts that this thing will ever pay back the energy required to make it, especially when compared to drain water heat recovery. I can even see it resulting in
higher ecological impact (through energy consumption) as it creates a false sense of sustainability.
EDIT: Oh yeah, something productive!
I use
a flow restrictor and
soap & save with the
removeable showerhead I got on sale. I chose the 1.5 GPM restrictor and have no complaints.
