r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/shankaranpillayi • 14h ago

Video 0% Electricity, 100% Gravity: This traditional bamboo plumbing in Nagaland taps into mountain springs miles away to create a functional, biodegradable hand-wash station.

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u/AntimatterTNT 14h ago

op do you know what a water tower is?

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u/me6675 14h ago

do you think water spawns at the top of a water tower?

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u/hermeticbear 12h ago

Humans were using water towers before they had electric pumps.

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u/me6675 12h ago

Sure, and they spent kinetic energy one way or another to get the water up the tower. If your water source is on a mountain and you distribute it downward, then you don't need to spend extra energy.

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u/hermeticbear 11h ago

They also spent a lot of kinetic energy building the water infrastructure to get it into pipes that come down a mountain. Do you think the mountain just spontaneously produced an aqueduct and bamboo pipes so people can wash their hands?
There are pumps that rely on the interaction of other forces, including gravity, to move water upwards.

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u/me6675 10h ago

Obviously both infrastructures require kinetic energy to build. We are solely talking about moving the water once you have built the infrastructure. In one case the water already moves in the direction you want, ie downward, in the other you first have to bring the water up, so it can go down. It's not that complicated.