i randomly remembered out of the blue that brazil developed electric suicide showers and i cant stop laughing.
>>109615586Explain in simple terms how a wire up there can electrocute me.
>>109615619water conducts electricityeven the fine mist between droplets
not sterile i suppose
it's a miracle how brazil has computers in the first place.
why don't they at least try to make it saferdo they hate their lives en masse or something like that
>>109615647It is the birthplace of Lua after all
>>109615619it electrifies the water droplets, making them like little electric bbs
the vapor cooks the brazilian
>>109615628>>109615719Explain how are brazilians still alive.
>>109615737basic evolution, millions of BRs were killed and the ones who survived had particular mutations in their genome that prevented electricity from harming them as much - just happens to be the same ones who enjoy sopa de macaco
>>109615586truth be told, it makes 1000000000% more sense to heat water at the tapwater heaters, no matter how well insulated, constantly lose heat to the environmentit takes time and energy to heat up the pipes between the water heater and tap when you need warm waterwater heaters run out of hot water if you use too much too fasthave to run twice as much source plumbing to anywhere that needs hot waterthe ONLY downside to heating at the tap is that you need a heater for each such taphowever, the only places you really need hot water are showers/baths, bathroom sink, and kitchen sink (and the first two could conceivably be combined)
>>109615737bcuz there's a brazillion of them
>>109615763if your house is the size of a room, sure.Central heating always wins on efficiency.
>>109615586this sorta story happens to me after isolation and happy mood. Coffee. sunny day. anticipating sex. getting away with murder.
>>109615763I can't prove it but this all sounds like bullshit
>>109615863Not true if you're using an electric heater.
>>109615863You don't need central heating in Brazil
>>109615586The UK has the same shit but as a giant box on the wall. Plus their shower designs are retarded and have a tiny window for you to huddle in and try not to spray the water all over the floor outside the shower. One of the most retarded shower designs I've ever used and they are all over the UK.
its also really funny that we have plumbing anywhere in the worldits like giving nature the middle finger, "I'm tired of your shit" and closing the door on it. Crack open a pop and eat packaged food lmao
>>109615586Perfectly safe, if installed correctly.
>>109615745>millions of BRs were killedkek
>>109615922Even if incorrectly, too. Way fewer have died because of that shit. It's like God is Brazilian and it's protecting His subjects. Amazing.
>>109615871It's true. Look it up. Nta
>>109615737Brazil is hot and humid 99% of the year so they rarely shower with hot water.
>>109615619I got zapped by one of those by touching the water valve
>>109615586the fact that the whole ass outlet is INSIDE the shower is fucking nutty
>>109615763water takes a shitload of energy to heat up. instead of your central hot water system toiling away at a few hundred watts all day (or programmed to only offpeak) and storing it you now have periods of 5-10x that in the morning when everybody is having a shower that means your entire cities energy grid needs wires 5-10x as thick and generation with 5-10x as much peak capacity
>>109615628Not really, pureish water is not very good at conducting electricity, and air is even worse.You're more likely getting zapped by the valve
>>109616412>Brazil>pureish water
>>109616423Basically not literal sea water.
>>109615895I've only seen this once. was in an older house with an extension so there was no runs from the boiler to the extension since it was added later.
>>109615650>do they hate their lives?They live in Brazil, so yes.
>>109616430I've seen them in every BnB I went to. The only place I didn't see one was at the couple of times I was at a hotel. Each one is a complete mystery in how well it will work or how much difference there is between freezing cold and third degree burn hot.
when i was like 7 i sat in the living room while my parents watched tvand in the series or movie they were watching a murder killed his victim by connecting their water in the shower to mainsi was legit scared of showers for a couple months because of that meanwhile brazilians just do that
>>109615586I kinda wanna visit brazil tho, seems based, the women are SO hot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06w3-l1AzFk
>>109616464>the women are SO hotThe few ones you see in movies are hot, all the other ones are ugly, same for every country.
>>109615745>>109615737>>109615586And that's how blanka was born.
>>109616464>>109616486Actually those hot "women" are men.The average Brazilian woman doesn't look like she's doing so well.
>>109616530yupp, bibicly accurate BR
>>109615586
>>109615586So this is the electrical current they taught me about in school
>>109615586Brazilian reporting in. These motherfuckers are cheap af (R$ 89 is about 18 dollars)> pic relatedwater gets boiling hot real quick too (instantly) while central heaters are slow af.they're pretty safe too, even when they fail. I've had one blow up over me and trip the circuit break once. Last year my shower melted a wire which also tripped a circuit break. It's quick, safe and cheap to fix these things.
>>109615650Safer versions exist. This shit is dirt cheap.Old construction in the Middle East usually has a tankless shower heater. It's about the size of an Xbox One S, usually mounted right outside the shower, no visible wires if it's installed properly. It's also a few hundred bucks and then you gotta pay a handyman to come out.A hue can pick one of those up at the store for like $10 and install it themselves.
>>109615895>>109616659Huh. Now I know where we got the fucking idea.>it's England's faultMany such cases.
>>109615586hey, my grandpa died at auschwitz from one of those, it happened in the guards' quarters
>>109616637Life is not a strawberry.
>>109615771this. they basically breed faster than we can kill them. electric showers are a good start but it's not enough
>>109615586How warm could the water even get? Given that this thing has to be just a resistive heater, what power could it be rated for max? Maybe like 3kW or a bit beyond that? Those wires don't really look like they'd be rated for more than that (assuming they're running a 230V system). That seems wholly insufficient to heat up water running at a respectable flow rate for a shower.I've got a tankless, gas-fired water heater, obviously it can get the water very hot at good flow, but IIRC its burner is rated for something like 24kW, so very high power. Given that my 24kW heater does an adequate job, I can't imagine one of these small electric heaters that can probably reach 10-15% of that tops would do much at all. Maybe the "cold" water over there is already quite warm and this just gives it a little boost or something?
>>109616412is it not the opposite? the ions carry the charge
>>109615619https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cx-wbH-A2PU
>>109615586(Here's why that's everything)
>>109615619Water conducts electricity to some degree, so if there's a continuous stream of water coming from the electric shower head, it could zap you. That shouldn't be very likely, but it still seems like an overtly dangerous design.
>>109616464Those aren't women
Are you actually grounded when standing on ceramic tho?
Zap
>>109616859Try closer to 7KWThese things can get pretty spicy.
>>109615628https://youtu.be/06w3-l1AzFk?t=488
>>109616954Do they run special circuits for the shower then, or what? That would be like 30A, I doubt standard circuits and sockets / plugs are rated for anything close to that. Even then it's still less than 1/3 of what my gas-burning heater does, which like I said is perfectly good to handle a shower, but at the same time it cannot handle 2 showers at once or a shower and somebody else using the hot water at the same time (the water gets significantly cooler). 7kW still seems paltry.
>>109615887You do, but only in the far south province.
I too want to die.
>>109616974teardown of one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo99U3nVCnA
>>109615586>>109615763>>109616585>>109616643lol so many coping and seething braziggers gj OP
just pull up stats.2373 electric shock accidents during year 2024meaning you are 15 times more likely to die in a car crash than get shocked in a shower.
