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Oh shit, mine gives me free heat......I could just strap a Stirling engine to my radiator!
You would be that asshole who ruined it for everyone else.
For high rises, why not stick a turbine on the outlet for waste water at the bottom of the building? You've already spent the energy to pump it up dozens of floors why not recoup some of it when it falls back down?
Think harder next time. They'll be able to figure out that you're not filling an Olympic sized pool every week and water/sewer use that excessive is gonna be a breach of contract aka eviction.
You'll be using less water than an AI data centre
Also consider running cold water through some sort of radiator if you want free AC
Most apartments with water included in the rent price (Sorry kids, there's no such thing as "free water") closely monitor their usage on a per building or floor basis. Whenever they detect irregularities they schedule inspections with the tenants to check for things like leaking toilet valves and such.
"free water" just means that they've calculated the cost of installing the meters and additional plumbing and determined that monitoring global usage and including it in the price of rent is cheaper.
Source: I have water included in my rent, I pay about $50 more a month than a similar apartment without.
You'd be an asshole.
Best fucking idea ever!
If you ever get free gas too, I have an idea for a wind turbine.
You could stick a windmill on top of your car and build up power as you drive to go faster if you drive faster
Sure but there wouldn’t be enough power, especially if you need things like AC.
Unlikely, but if any main power lines run past your walls or floor where they are regularly carrying substantial current, you can probably use a wire coil to light an led or something.
Well I can say from experience that your landlord won't be happy, but as long as it doesnt say a limit in your lease there's nothing they can do about it.
pretty sure there's an old copypasta about this or something
Mine used to give me free water and natural gas. I filled my waterbed with hot water when I moved in.
Years later, they changed it over so that the whole building was metered and the price was divided.
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Stupid question.
NOT a shower thought.
You monster
Maybe on some other planet, where success is deemed as failure and they all have USB ports for genitals.
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