Comments on: $2 Million Navy Urinal Study

By: Porcelain » Blog Archive » The Navy Gets Jazzed about Flushless

Porcelain » Blog Archive » The Navy Gets Jazzed about Flushless — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 20:00:28 +0000

[...] Read some commentary here and an article here. [...]

By: shipmate

shipmate — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 06:12:00 +0000

As Dale pointed out, our ships use saltwater for flushing, so conserving fresh water is irrelevant, unless the newer ships do use freshwater (I've been out of the Navy for 12 years now).

But the saltwater urinals and their discharge piping were always clogging up due to what we called "calcium buildup", which is a by-product of mixing urine with salt.

These flushless toilets may be worth something.

By: Herb

Herb — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 20:53:05 +0000

If the R & D doesn't produce the desired results, They could always say. "Piss on it"

By: Dale Borgeson

Dale Borgeson — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 16:27:49 +0000

Ashore, this might make sense.

On the ship I was on, the urinals and toilets used saltwater. There is probably no need to conserve saltwater. The freshwater was limited to the showers and sinks, when it was on at all.

By: DL

DL — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 16:21:05 +0000

Wow, a two million dollar navy is being studied at some unrinals.

Having put in four years in a boiler room and having done some plumbing for baitwells on lesser craft, it seems to me that Navy can easily flush these things with salt water being forced into the system just with the forward motion of the ship!

By: The Florida Masochist

The Florida Masochist — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 16:12:51 +0000

This gives new meaning

to the expression pissing away taxpayer money. The House wants to appropriate 2 million dollars to study flushless urinals. The company is in Michigan, so I guess its a congressman or congresswoman from that state pushing this idea. This would save N...

By: DC Loser

DC Loser — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 14:16:14 +0000

Uh...I've seen the flushless urinals in two federal facilities inside the Beltway, and they were all removed because of problems. Why not ask those agencies about their experiences?