{"id":1161,"date":"2013-06-11T11:55:23","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T08:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/?p=1161"},"modified":"2013-06-11T11:55:23","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T08:55:23","slug":"japanese-toilets-and-energy-consumption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/2013\/06\/11\/japanese-toilets-and-energy-consumption\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese toilets and energy consumption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During an ISO meeting one of the members said that toilets should be called &#8220;user interface&#8221;. This led to a somewhat funny discussion about toilets around the world. While talking about the heated toilets in Japan it was pointed that these facilities use a lot of energy. So I looked it up and found a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/06\/24\/AR2008062401285.html\">post on the Washington Post<\/a> saying that these <strong>heated toilets take about 4% of household energy consumption<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Japanese toilets can warm and wash one&#8217;s bottom, whisk away odors with built-in fans and play water noises that drown out potty sounds. They play relaxation music, too. &#8220;Ave Maria&#8221; is a favorite.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>An imported note is that, according to the World Bank, the <a title=\"Electric power consumption (kWh per capita)\" href=\"http:\/\/data.worldbank.org\/indicator\/EG.USE.ELEC.KH.PC\">per-capita energy consumption<\/a> in Japan is about 60% of the one in the US (home of the Washington Post).<\/p>\n<p>Looking at some of these devices I found an amazing image of a wireless remote control with 38 (!) buttons. See the translation of the buttons <a title=\"Wireless toilet control panel\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Wireless_toilet_control_panel_w._open_lid.jpg\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Wireless_toilet_control_panel_w._open_lid.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1163\" alt=\"Wireless_toilet_control_panel_w._open_lid\" src=\"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Wireless_toilet_control_panel_w._open_lid.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Image by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/User:Chris_73\">Chris 73<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/\">Wikimedia Commons<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During an ISO meeting one of the members said that toilets should be called &#8220;user interface&#8221;. This led to a somewhat funny discussion about toilets around the world. While talking about the heated toilets in Japan it was pointed that &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/2013\/06\/11\/japanese-toilets-and-energy-consumption\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Japanese toilets and energy consumption<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[166,165,164],"class_list":["post-1161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-off-topic","tag-energy-consumption","tag-heated-toilet","tag-japan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1161"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1165,"href":"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions\/1165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}