Researchers have come up with two new urinal designs to prevent the spillage of “ill-aimed pee.”
I woke up very sick this morning and this is the first thing to make me smile today. Thanks for sharing lol
I know I, for one, was concerned about all this wasted piss, and I’m glad there’s a team of scientists looking into a solution.
I’m skeptical about this.
There are like 170M dudes
And say each pee is about 300ml
Then 1 in 50 dudes needs to have a full pee on the floor every day.Ok maybe that’s a bit more believable
I’m also dubious on how the number is arrived at.
5ml per man per day misses target.
If you include the outliers that are incontinent, it makes up for the folks who skip a day or two of floor-pissing.
Lol there’s a sentence I never thought I’d type.
It probably includes the nearly microscopic droplets that spray out of the urinal.
Have you ever had to clean public restrooms? Nothing microscopic about the drops of splashback.
Citation needed.
Thank you protestor. I mean it doesn’t even pass the possibility test. 300m people population, 1m litres ≈ 300L per person, per day?
You got your numbers mixed around.
1m liters/340m men = 0.00294 liters per day
That’s just under 3ml, which is very little, but still seems high. Assuming that not every man is using only the urinal, the number per urinal usage is even higher. But I also don’t know american public bathrooms, are they that filthy?
Oh damn. I sure did.
I’m sure there’s one weirdo responsible for ~70m liters, peeing at the floor at every opportunity.
It’s not my fault. It just flails around like a garden hose and even with both hands I simply don’t have the strength to wrangle that python.
It’s only about 170m men, so almost 6ml
It’s the opposite, it would be 1/300 L/person/day, or 1L per 300 persons
It is literally in the article: https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/4/4/pgaf087/8098745
It’s all me. Sorry. I’ll work on my aim.
The waste (╯°□°）╯
DOGE needs to fix this.
The researchers suggest that if Nautilus was to replace the 56 million urinals across the U.S., around 1 million liters of urine would be prevented from being splashed onto the floor every day. Assuming that the volume of water needed to clean up spilled urine is about 10 times that of the volume of urine, about 10 million liters (2,199,692 gallons) of fresh water could be saved every day, the scientists said.
The widespread adoption of these urinal designs “would result in considerable conservation of human resources, cost, cleaning chemicals, and water usage, rendering large-scale impacts on modern society by improving sustainability, hygiene, and accessibility,” the researchers wrote.
They should drop everything and do this first thing.
Assuming that the volume of water needed to clean up spilled urine is about 10 times that of the volume of urine, about 10 million liters (2,199,692 gallons) of fresh water could be saved every day, the scientists said.
These scientists appear to be working under the incorrect assumption that the urine gets cleaned…
They’re also assuming the bathroom floors wouldn’t be cleaned regularly if there wasn’t urine on them. I’m pretty sure all buildings with a custodial staff mops the floor everyday, bathrooms twice a day. They’d at most reduce cleaning the bathroom to once daily instead if these urinals we’re absolutely perfect and no other reason for cleaning bathroom floors existed.
Think of what we could be doing with that urine if we actually invested in recapturing it.
Not sure if youre sarcastic or not (I was), but there has actually been research if the nutrients in urine can be used as fertiliser and I believe the result was positive.
I love the mental image of a government employee having the job of spilling barrels of piss into bathrooms around the nation
Just make the floor sloped into a drain and you don’t even need urinals. 🤷🏻♂️
Please don’t make troughs become a thing again!
Been in a pub toilet when a drunk guy came in, whipped it out half way across the room and the dirty fucker started pissing while staggering to the urinal. Just a fucken animal.
I recall one place I worked. There was a “ofd” older gentleman. I was in the restroom with him at a urinal. He went to the paper towel holder, grabbed about 5 pieces, folded them, and then proceeded to wipe the inside of the urinal out. After he finished, he put the paper towel into one of his back pockets and peed, I think. I didn’t stay to watch him finish. I just exited the bathroom and didn’t look back.
Poor floor
Spilled makes it sound like someone’s clumsily carrying around a barrel of urine throughout public toilets.
Just bring back the old floor mounted types
Now its all over my shoes.
Urine Georg,
Who the heck has counted this?
