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Sam's shower

Sam Mehta's shower is one of the most wonderful gizmos I've come across. Well,
how I ended up under Sam's shower is a long story and it's got to do with
addiction to football and food. Anyway, when you look at it for the first
time, it looks like something built out of spare hardware left over from some
plumbing job in the seventees. To put it simply, its a shower combined with a
water heater and perhaps the most efficient way of heating water for a bath.
Only water that you use for the bath gets heated, so there is no wastage of
electricity. Invariable in all modern geyzers and boilers, you heat up more
water than you use. And unless you have spent a fortune in insulation of the
boiler and the piping, the rest of the heated water becomes cold and power is
wasted.
Hats off to Sam ... or rather his shower.

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