Comments on: Fight Global Warming With Your Toilet

By: Top 5 Green Technologies Still Missing from the USA : EcoWorldly

Top 5 Green Technologies Still Missing from the USA : EcoWorldly — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:45:40 +0000

[...] Heated toilet seats are yesterday’s tech. Today, the toilet seat gets warm when someone sits on it and turns off to save energy the rest of the time. Maybe you just have to see the Japanese video. [...]

By: Bjarni

Bjarni — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:47:55 +0000

I presume that’s why it’s called a “Japanese toilet”. I don’t think they are used anywhere else. This could be due to lack of insulation.

By: fromthehill

fromthehill — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 16:52:00 +0000

a heated toilet seat???

I’ve never seen those here in the netherlands

By: Ippoippo » Mmmmm

Ippoippo » Mmmmm — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 16:48:51 +0000

[...] now… there’s a Eco-version! Gotta love those Japanese [...]

By: The Overthinker

The Overthinker — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 09:10:09 +0000

Seconded. Dumb idea: I want a heated loo seat when I first sit down, thank you very much. Of course the cheap trick is just put some bog paper on the seat to insulate….

By: James

James — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 04:57:26 +0000

Thanks for noticing my error: the post has been corrected.

By: Bjarni

Bjarni — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 01:02:09 +0000

I just had the greatest idea when reading this. Try combining it with the story about women requesting men to sit while peeing from the other day (actually the 13th of Dec). With a seat like this men can actually claim to save both money and the environment by standing up. I bet this can make some interesting conversations

A bit more on the serious side…. those toilets really sounds like a waste of energy. Wouldn’t it be better to insulate the bathroom instead?

By: Pam

Pam — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 00:43:46 +0000

It says the savings would be 4900 per year, not per month. I wonder how many years of use it would take to make the purchase of that new toilet worth the energy savings?

By: hubris3

hubris3 — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 00:03:27 +0000

I have a heated toilet seat and there’s no way it costs 4900yen a month! The whole point of heating the seat is so that when you first sit down on a chilly December morn you don’t wake the neighbors with your icy screech. If I wanted to wait, my big a** would heat the seat just fine on its own. Maybe if the toilet pictured in the ad floating above the trees were the actual size…

By: Charles Nguyen

Charles Nguyen — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 23:51:04 +0000

My toilet seat is 100% energy saving! It doesn’t heat up though… Wow, they spend a lot per month for their toilet seat.