Professor Stephen Burkinshaw, Chair of Textile Chemistry at the University of Leeds, has created a nearly waterless washing machine. Xeros ltd. has been created to commercialize products based on this system (both for home use and for solvent-based commercial garment cleaning). Given the predicted trouble for supplies of freshwater technology that can reduce water use will be very useful.
Virtually waterless washing machine heralds cleaning revolution
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July 8th, 2008 at 3:01 am
After reading worrying post about “Prozac”( I have been taking that since 5 months), this post make me happy and amazed. I am feeling joy of cleaning my clothes without water and without dryer.
November 5th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
“the starter on this model is horrible. You have to tun this incredibly cheap key in a very poorly designed socket. Fails over 80% of the time…”