The other day I was traveling and I noticed that in the men’s bathroom there were solar powered auto flushers. I thought,”hey, that’s cool, and very green” as I walked away I heard that familiar swoosh. Nice. No pee hands on the flusher!!!
Solar powered flusher
Then I noticed that they had automated soap dispensers, must have been battery powered (I didn’t see a solar panel) still I thought to myself, “cool I don’t have to touch anything that might have some other person’s fluids on it.”
Then I went to wash my hands, and no automated water? What was the meaning of this? I was outraged at having to use my hand to push down on a button that let water come out for about 4 seconds, I did this repeatedly like a rat on heroin who pushes a button to get more heroin. Still I got washed.
So there goes the clean part of my washing hands. But at least it was timed and not a waste of water.
Later as I put on my belt, my shoes, put my man dignity back together after a full body cavity search from the high school equivalent GED grad who was now our security guard protecting America’s skies, I came to a conclusion. Those solar powered bathrooms are powered by floruscent lights.
Isn’t that like just plugging in a bathroom flusher to a wall? It’s light that’s generated by electricity that powers a solar panel on an auotflusher, something that really I could do on my own. Then I thought about the soap dispenser, a battery or some power auto dispense that foamy clean soap, but I could do that with human power as well.
So I guess when you look at all the improvements we’ve done to be more green, maybe just leaving what was originally there, was probably the greenest or yellowest energy we could have.
