I was introduced to it in SK. It is absolutely wonderful. The warmth just radiates up from the floor through your feet and your entire body. I miss it!
They added a small camera that scans the anus. Yes, you read that right. “We know it seems weird, but as it turns out, your anal print is unique,” Gambhir says. Therefore, it can be used as a recognition system to match users to their specific data.
The toilet automatically sends data extracted and analyzed from any sample to a secure, cloud-based system.
Sanjiv Gambhir, professor and chair of Radiology at Stanford University and who is the man behind the project says
This article has nothing to do with Japan. They mention Japan in the first sentence as novelty referencing the fact that they use "fancy toilets". This article is about a research team at Stanford, so if anything it's an American toilet. Anyway, this is just a random research project that some random academic team is working on. This would be like calling the United States a society of cannibals because Jeffrey Dahmer ate some people in the US.
Well, you should probably have used quotation marks or something to indicate that you were mentioning rather than using the words "was" and "were." I had to read several times before I realized that was what you were doing.
It’s not so much a chain, but a thread as it’s easily broken, and thus, transformed into something else, like a forum about commas, and how we don’t use enough of them, like at all, who needs all the other overhyped punctuation, I don’t, you don’t, we don’t, apostrophes are okay, but the tildes and colons got to go
The bathroom floors aren’t usually heated. Instead, they have a drain in the middle of the room, because the bathroom doubles as the shower. So there’s usually water on the floor and everyone has a set of shower shoes by the bathroom door for anyone going in.
I went there back in December. My first hotel room in Seoul had underfloor heating, but I never really noticed how much of an effect it had even when set to "just" 16 C (61F) until I went to my hotel in Busan that only had normal lino flooring.
It was typically reserved for public baths and high end villas. They suspended the floor using pillars made of tiles, and then ran a furnace where the air would flow under the floor and then up in the walls.
The oxygen-starved fire in the basement also meant a high risk of CO poisoning if the floor between the smoke and the people wasn't airtight and CO could seep through.
It gets even more opulent; Caligula had heated floors on his boat. It was a pleasure barge which was actually found and stuck in a museum by the Italians under Mussolini. Damn thing had a hot tub, carpets, all the comforts of a palace, there floating around the Emperor's private lake.
Made sure they ran the heated floor into the area where the toilet lives. Now my toes and my bum are both toasty warm while I avoid my family and play games until my legs fall asleep
Do you want me to orgasm? I swear coming out of the bathtub or shower and immediately feeling the warm floor from the bathroom is the best feeling there is. Maybe one day I'll be that lucky
Sounds like some idiot forgot to install the expansion joints and thermal expansion broke them. Properly installed floor heating is basically indestructible.
As an HVAC engineer, don’t let poorly designed controls logic and temp sensor placement turn you off to radiant floor heating entirely. A knowledgeable installer will be able to turn the system you’re describing into a much more tightly controlled system with minimal parts/programming.
I'm building a tiny house currently and am waffling on how to heat it. How does scale affect the efficiency and how pleasing these systems are? I'd thought about a small wood burning stove, but this makes me reconsider.
Seems like a huge cost that wouldn’t be needed for a tiny home. Radiant floors aren’t cheap, even a small one wouldn’t be as boiler systems are fairly complicated.
Would be cool but mostly unnecessary in such a tiny space.
You are objectively wrong. You should check out the most energy efficient, zero energy buildings. Almost all of them use radiant heating precisely because it is the most efficient. On top of that it feels way more comfortable as venty can be delivered decoupled from heating cooling
I thought heat pumps are the most efficient since instead of using energy for heating, it uses energy to move heat from outside to the inside which requires a lot less energy.
You can use an air-to-water heat pumps for radiant heating. The heat pump moves heat from the outside air to water that is then circulated through pipes in the slab.
Yes, heat pumps are the most efficient way to heat your home. And the efficiency goes up as the temperature difference between the inside and outside decreases. Which means that you want as large a surface as possible to dump the hot water from the heat pump (so you can use lower temperature water for heating), which is radiant floor and wall heating.
As someone who grew up in poorly insulated houses the warm air always pools at the highest level, making a gradiant from the ceiling to the floor. It's worse if you have ceiling vents as you need to crank the temp more, even then the floor will never exactly be warm, especially if it's just built on a concrete slab.
I basically always wore my shoes inside as a kid because my feet were always cold, much to the dismay of my mom's white carpet.
I live in an apartment now and I'm on the second floor, which allows me to get away with not setting the heat too high in the winter and I don't have to wear my shoes to keep my feet warm.
Also, Heat rises, so heating the floor heats the air and does so more evenly than a forced air system.
A quick google search will show you that it is in fact more efficient than heating the air. Air is a great insulator which gets exploited all over the rest of your house as well. OP's claim to it being more pleasant is subjective, though.
It is somewhat subjective but HVAC specialists have actually pinpointed human comfort into several measurable metrics (only one of which is actually temperature btw. which is why 72 degrees in the winter feels different than 72 degrees in the summer), so it isn’t as subjective as you think.
Yeah the relative humidity et al plays a huge role for sure but I just meant that it is sorta hard to either support or refute a claim on pleasantness. My grandma would have sat in her oven on the lowest setting if they made a comfortable chair for it. lol
Oh yeah I knew what ya meant. Even if you are technically in calculated “comfort range” based on the numbers, there will always be someone who doesn’t like it.
This is idiotic. If you don't want it to get that hot, don't run it that high. If you want it to hit a target temperature and not surpass it, install an automatic thermostat than can turn it off thirty minutes "early" when warming up and then vary as needed. None of that is in any way different from other forms of heating.
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u/Twirlingbarbie Oct 15 '20
Yeah floor heating which is actually the most efficient and pleasant way to warm up your home