Petal Drops from Quirky
Petal Drops from Quirky is an elegant solution for re-purposing rain water. The flower-shaped funnel is made out of 100% recycled high-density polyethylene and it allows you to capture rain water and re-use it for a variety of purposes.
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It doesn’t take much to see that approximately the double amount of rain-water could be collected if the funnel were not flower shaped.
Compromising the claimed purpose that much just to make it look nice and still claiming that it is and efficient way of collecting rain water just doesn’t make any sense.
I think it’s a very bad design and I should think that a proper designer could make an efficient rain water collector look good instead of making some good-looking thing collect rain water in an obviously inefficient way.
What Soren said.
I agree with Soren too. Also, what “variety of uses” do they mean for us to reuse the water for? I wouldn’t want to drink it, and (unless that is one insanely big bottle) it doesn’t hold enough to bathe in or even wash a sink of dishes! The only thing I can come up with is watering plants and ummm… I think that would have been done anyway!
Um…you’re missing the point – if you want an “efficient” rain collection system, might I suggest NASA or some Star Wars moisture vaporators for your “efficient” rain collecting needs. This is an eye-catching way to collect surplus rain water with a bottle that would have been heading for a landfill otherwise. Once collected you can use the water to water your plants on the INSIDE of your house. Saves water AND money. See?
It is for watering plants indoors with rain water, so yes it would seem slightly silly to water plants outdoors with very recently collected rain water as they will have had their share of it!
Or, you could just buy a regular funnel. Seems a like a bit of a waste.
Maybe not the perfect rain collector, but i like the design idea. i’d favor this on my balcony rather than an ugly funnel.
Maybe you should read the whole story on Quirky.
Form follows function.