Patented Microdroplet-Rinsing Put to the Test and Sets the 1/265th GPF Bar: In the video above we use an industry standard dry-marker surface-flush test. Note: this standard test was designed for appliances that literally use a flushing 'wall of water', not a miniscule microdroplet mist (but we were curious to see how we might compare). The video contrasts a leading-brand's '1 gpf' one gallon-water per flush (128 oz) best-seller with a Flowmist-directed-mister nozzle approach, using no more than 0.5 ounce of water (1/256th of a gallon). The main object of the Industry Standard test is to prove a company's surface-flushing method will remove a solid horizontal line made by a given black dry-marker during flushing. A secondary issue is to see if the flushing also sends the removed marker material down the drain during a use-cycle. A successful full-removal of the marker's line from the surface receiving the 'flushing' indicates that the flushing (and flushed-surface properties) meet the required waste-liquid dispensing standard. Initially, we were just trying to see if our microdroplet-rinsing would work as well on ceramic surfaces as it does on stainless steel surfaces. A review of the video above will show why we were extremely pleased with the results.

 

The David & Goliath Contrast: In the video's first test we have a brand-new #1-selling American Standard '1 gpf' urinal set up, which relies on a brute-force 'gush-flushing' of a full gallon of water (128 ounces) to remove the dry marker line. After the main flush you can see a thin continuing sheet of water and hear the gallon of water taking about 16 seconds to flush and fully drain. Then two successive tests are performed using our patented microdroplet-rinsing method. Each of the microdroplet tests also take about 16 seconds but use only <0.5 ounce of water--that's 1/256th of the 1 gpf volume. Honestly, we had no idea whether a humble microdroplet misting would even work on removing the standard-test dry-marker line, let alone fully rinse it away in the same time as the Goliath 'Gush-Flush'.

 

Moral of the Story: Forget the Gush-Flushing--Just Mistify

 

What the #1 Urinal Uses in 1.5 Days a Zero-Footprint SmartAppliance Could Use Over a Whole Year: Since the video was made, we have continued to fine-tune how we direct our microdroplet-rinsing onto stainless steel, ceramic, glass, silicone (or other smooth surfaces) such that just a half-ounce of water now covers typical use-cycles e.g., <30 seconds. We expect these new advances to be a basis for additional patents and markets both domestic and foreign. Get this, if the #1-selling 1 gpf 'always-in-plain-view' urinal was installed in a home and used throughout only 1.5 days (7.5 gallons, at 5 flushes per day) a 0.5 oz per-use Flowmist SmartAppliance (e.g., a 'Seldom Seen' In-Wall or In-Cabinet Zero-Footprint model) installed in the home could instead use that 7.5 gallons of water over a period of a full year (and more). A full year+ at 5x-per-day usage, versus only 1.5 days? Now that's a SmartHome appliance.

See below how 1 FM SmartAppliances in a minority of US homes could save a billion gallons of water daily.

 

How Do The New Dual-Flush Toilets Compare? Even state-of-the-art dual-flush toilets in their liquid-waste 'conserving' modes still use 0.8-1.1 gallons of water (that's 204-268 times more water than Flowmist's 0.5 oz microdroplet-rinsing per use). So unfortunately, they're not much different than the 1 gpf urinal shown in the video above. Based on about five flushes per day one major brand states their dual-flush toilet saves about $99 of water per year over typical 3.5 gpf toilets. If using 22.8% of the 3.5 gpf saves $99 in water each year, think how much you would save when using only 1/887th the 3.5 gpf amount -- or less than 1/200th of the major brand's amount of water (at Flowmist's 0.5 oz per use). Flowmist's SmartAppliances would pay for themselves.

 

Water used daily by an average toilet in the U.S. could last 1000+ days with a Flowmist SmartAppliance

 

Use Flowmist Home SmartAppliances' >1000x Disruption and Save a Billion Gallons of Water a Day: Note that we've been contrasting above Flowmist's disruptive 0.5 oz microdroplet-rinsing with a best-selling 1.0 gpf building-urinal and the liquid-waste flush modes of newer 0.8-1.1 'dual-flush' appliances, not the conventional 3.5-6.0 gpf toilets that are installed in a significant majority of U.S. homes and businesses. In the U.S. market there are over 114 million occupied homes with an average of about two 3.5-6.0 gpf toilets per home each used five times a day. Using a 4.0 gpf rate as an 'average toilet' (see spreadsheet-excerpt above) just one of two 4.0 gpf toilets flushed five times takes 20 gallons of water each day. In 100 million homes that's two billion gallons of water a year--for one toilet. Thus, two 4.0 gpf toilets flushed five times a day (i.e., ten flushes) use 40 gallons per home/day--which comes to 14,600 gallons per home/year--that's four billion gallons, enough water to fill up an average size swimming pool at every U.S. home every year. Let's convert the one 4.0 GPF toilet used five times per day to ounces: the 20-gallons equals 2560 ounces of water. In contrast, the five use-cycles or microdroplet-rinsings per day of a Flowmist Home SmartAppliance come to 2.5 ounces of water use per day--a disruptive >1000x reduction in water use. So, using just one Flowmist 'FM' SmartAppliance as one of a home's two toilets could save 19.98 gallons of water per day, which means that if less than half of the U.S. homes used a FM SmartAppliance we could collectively save one billion gallons of water per day. Get the pay-for-themselves SmartAppliances into a 100 million homes, and still only use them for half the daily (10) flushes and they could even save two billion gallons of water a day just in U.S. homes. Businesses/commercial buildings use 9.5 billion gallons of water per day (2% of which = 190 million gallons). So wall-mount or Zero-Footprint Flowmist models employed in around 2% of U.S. businesses* would save over a billion gallons of water about every week (i.e., sixty-one billion gallons each year).

* Pending Flowmist IP includes Internet-Connected (IoT) 'Smart-Systems' for entire restroom facilities

NOTE: Flowmist ultra high-efficiency 'UHE' Microdroplet-Rinsing techniques operate on a new set of principles different than those of conventional urinals e.g., an optional pre-wetting, and microdroplet-induced surface-hydrophobics for a repelling of waste-liquids. While the tests above demonstrate Flowmist's patented microdroplet misting of only 0.5 oz of water can indeed do the dry marker removal job of a 'Goliath' 128 oz flushing (and do so on a conventional urinal ceramic surfaces) there are a number of other advantages to employing Flowmist SmartAppliances in the manner shown on other pages of this web site.