{"id":4546,"date":"2016-08-12T09:38:37","date_gmt":"2016-08-12T14:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=4546"},"modified":"2016-08-12T09:39:13","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T14:39:13","slug":"4546","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/08\/12\/4546\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting a new clothes dryer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Derek Markham @ <i><b>Treehugger <\/b><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/clean-technology\/ultrasonic-clothes-dryers-could-shorten-drying-time-20-minutes-and-use-70-less-energy.html\" target=\"_blank\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/clean-technology\/ultrasonic-clothes-dryers-could-shorten-drying-time-20-minutes-and-use-70-less-energy.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1471098656373000&amp;usg=AFQjCNE5a5KwmhjC64NUTjpBkt7wIo2XCg\">reports <\/a>on a new <em>dryer technology<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Scientists at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), with support from the US Department of Energy&#8217;s Building Technologies Office and GE Appliances, has developed a prototype of an innovative clothes drying technology that could shorten drying times down to just 20 minutes, and reduce the amount of energy used for each load by 70%. Instead of using heat to remove water from clothing, this prototype uses high-frequency vibrations &#8211; ultrasonic waves &#8211; produced by piezoelectric transducers driven by a custom amplifier.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wonder about the gotcha &#8211; ultrasonics may need to be damped. Will this still require spinning? What about failure modes? It&#8217;s interesting since, as Mark notes, home dryers consume 4% of electricity produced today. And big efficiency increases are cool. The question will be whether this can be made consumer-tough and -safe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Derek Markham @ Treehugger reports on a new dryer technology: Scientists at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), with support from the US Department of Energy&#8217;s Building Technologies Office and GE Appliances, has developed a prototype of an innovative clothes drying technology that could shorten drying times down to just \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/08\/12\/4546\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4546"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4548,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4546\/revisions\/4548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}