Levi's cloths eco cloths dryer competiion
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Well, something similar here. I remember my parents buying our forst washing machine which was practically just a rinser something like this:
And she then had another machine (is there a word like "centrifugal"?) to get rid of the water:
But before this, hand washing. Especially where we first lived (until I was 2) where there was not even water in the house but had to go to the corner where there was a public pump like this:
Well, poor mum washed my nappies (of course no disposable paper one back then) with some wooden pieces adjusting them in hot, boiling water in the stove...
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Footage of a Victorian Public Laundry
How times have changed.
Regards,
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Well for green machine washers: at a farm where I used to live, we had a gas powered wringer machine--but we took the gas motor off, added a starter engine and ran it all on solar collectors. The drying was also solar / wind, on a clothes line.
McGyver, I suspect some of the problem with the competitions is not the green element, but the fact that people are trying to invent such things all the time and if it worked, it would soon be on the market. Probably there are examples of some such competitions that actually created a result by proposing new threads of thought--but probably best suited for "appropriate technology" solutions for rural or undeveloped areas.
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