A more energy efficient way to dry your clothes

The Laundry Alternative is promoting a product that can reduce North American household energy usage by six to ten percent. Using a Spin Dryer instead of a traditional tumble dryer is one way to reduce your carbon footprint and save some money in the process.

Here are the details from the product website:

The Spin Dryer has a 3200 revolutions per minute spin cycle- many times faster than the spin cycle on a top loading washing machine, which is normally in the 500 revolutions per minute (RPM) range. As a result, it extracts significantly more water from the clothes than a washing machine spin cycle does. It does not have a heating element, so it does not get the clothes 100% dry. You put the clothes in the top of the machine, and within about 2-3 minutes the clothes are nearly dry. It removes about as much water from the clothes in only 2-3 minutes as a tumble dryer would in 30-35 minutes, which results in dramatic energy savings. After the cycle is over, the clothes can either be hung up to fully dry, or run through a tumble dryer for a few minutes to remove the last bits of moisture.

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This looks like a good idea- but- yes, there is a but- it looks awfully small. Is this a prototype- or is this IT?

I went to the web site and it seems that this is the actual unit, but there is no information on how much laundry can be put into it.

I’m guessing that it can handle a few small items- that would mean putting many loads through the unit for every load of laundry washed…

Don’t get me wrong, I love the idea, but how practical is it?

I hope I’m wrong. If so, please post a comment.

1. Rich on May 26th, 2008 at 5:26 pm
Unbelievable. Everything old is new again. My Mum had one of these back in the sixties - including the spout for the water that had to be caught in a bowl. (I think later versions had a siphon you could hang over a sink). The best fun was when she would load it unevenly and it would start to vibrate, then bounce around - always moving the spout away from the bowl and flooding the kitchen. Thank you for bringing back happy memories.

Oh, and the other device she had was a mangle. You got one of those yet?

2. Stephen Rees on May 26th, 2008 at 5:05 pm
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Keep up the great work!

3. Heidrun Karin Peters on May 25th, 2008 at 9:38 am