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"that? Oh it's just part of my washing machine."]]>Jun 10th 2008 9:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/Jun 10th 2008 10:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/Jun 11th 2008 9:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/Jun 10th 2008 9:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/
But when the peeping ended, you knew the cycle was done.]]>Jun 11th 2008 11:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/Jun 10th 2008 10:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/Jun 10th 2008 11:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/Jun 10th 2008 9:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/Jun 10th 2008 10:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/Jun 10th 2008 10:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/
Never underestimate a rich person's ability to romanticize countries other than their own.]]>Jun 10th 2008 10:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/Jun 10th 2008 10:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/Jun 10th 2008 10:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/Jun 10th 2008 10:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/Jun 10th 2008 10:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/
As great as it is to save water, the perception on how clean your clothes come out will either make or break this technology. I'm sure the typical consumer would think more water = more clean. Using only 2% of what current machines use makes it sound as if your clothes are going to come out musty after a wash. Hell, even I decided to sit for an hour staring at the LG washer to see how clean my clothes would get for only using 25% water than a normal wash.]]>Jun 10th 2008 10:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/Jun 10th 2008 10:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/Jun 10th 2008 11:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/Jun 11th 2008 4:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/Jun 10th 2008 10:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/Jun 10th 2008 11:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/

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Bible: In the beginning was the word...

Clak: Um, no, actually you'll find APPLE was first. Why do I have to keep pointing this out to these morons...
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You can't tell me *that's* a fair trade to the environment over a couple of cups of water.

Besides, how big would the machine have to be to fit 20Kg of plastic chips, plus washing?]]>Jun 10th 2008 11:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/Jun 10th 2008 11:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/Jun 11th 2008 4:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/Jun 11th 2008 4:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/Jun 10th 2008 11:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/Jun 10th 2008 11:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/Jun 11th 2008 4:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/Jun 11th 2008 8:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/Jun 10th 2008 11:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/
"Oh, that's just the biological bleach based microchips"

Can't see this product going down well with my fellow Brits.]]>Jun 11th 2008 12:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/Jun 11th 2008 12:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/Jun 11th 2008 12:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/except the interview was 12 years ago...]]>Jun 11th 2008 12:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/ cost of water

It uses 75% less water, but runs twice as long...is that water savings equal to, or greater than, the extra cost of power? Where I live (US), I believe the power cost would GREATLY outweigh the water cost (as, IIRC, we get 25,000gals/month as the base amount before they start charging for overages).]]>Jun 11th 2008 12:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/
or is it with the salt?]]>Jun 11th 2008 1:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/
Dude? what the hell happened to your shirt?!?!
uhh... it was Wolverine !
seriously dude, wtf?
idk my washing machine ate it ?]]>Jun 11th 2008 2:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/
Just use the water. People act like its gone forever or something. Trust me, the water will come back in something called the water cycle that involves evaporation, rain etc.

If you are worried about the detergent - don't use any, its still a far sign better than all those chemically treated plastic chips that are made from oil and contaminate a fair amount of water in their manufacture (and yes, the water WILL come back that way too, but the chemicals that get released are a hell of a lot more nasty any detergent you are likely to buy)]]>Jun 11th 2008 2:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/Jun 11th 2008 3:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/Jun 11th 2008 3:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/
bear in mind it's HOT water we're talking about. heating appliances are about as expensive to run as electricity consumption gets, so the cost of heating the greater volume of water probably well outweighs that of intermittently running the motor for longer.]]>Jun 11th 2008 7:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/Jun 11th 2008 8:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/Jun 22nd 2008 10:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/Jun 11th 2008 8:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/
I have family in Europe who moved there from the US with their appliances. They tell me when they switched to European appliances the primary savings was not in water, it was in energy efficiency. Of course they replaced older American made appliances (GE) with newer European ones so the caveat is that it is possible the American made appliances they replaced were less efficient than today's American made appliances as well. ]]>Jun 11th 2008 8:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/Jun 11th 2008 8:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/
You 'save' water because it only uses a cup rather than the huge amount we currently 'waste'. I put it that way because, as I'm sure you know, water is neither created nor destroyed in the washing process, it gets dirty and then is returned to the ecosystem after being processed...

BUT... here's the part people seem to be missing... this thing needs 47 lbs (or around 20Kg) of *plastic* which is only good for around 100 uses - or about 6 months of use (by their own reckoning).

And there's no indication what happens to the plastic when it's used up - or what pollution gets created when this plastic is made or disposed.

This is a great example of 'front-loaded green' - something that seems green at the consumer end, but ends up being worse than the original problem when you factor everything from start to end.]]>Jun 11th 2008 2:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/Jun 11th 2008 4:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/10/virtually-waterless-washing-machine-edges-closer-to-production/Jun 11th 2008 7:22PM