Imagine just a cup of water sufficient to wash your linen
June 14, 2008
Salute the British Scientists, who have developed a new technology, which uses merely a cup of water to wash clothes in a washing machine. The day is not far off, when you will own a washing machine that washes clothes almost without water; certainly a kind of green revolution as water is and will certainly be a precious commodity in times to come.
The new system developed by the British Scientists at Leeds University, uses less than 2% of the water and also the energy of a conventional washing machine. The new method washing machine was patented and developed at Leeds. Almost 35kg of water and considerable amount of energy is consumed to wash about a kg of clothes. The new developed system will reduce the amount of water and energy consumption by as much as 98 per cent.
Plastic granule usage process removes most of the stains and leaves clothes as fresh as normal wash. Besides, the clothes emerge almost dry there by reducing tumble-drier operations. Stephen Burkinshaw, Leeds professor and an international acclaimed expert in the science of textiles and dyeing, said: “The performance of the Xerox process in cleaning clothes has been quite astonishing. We have shown that it can remove all sorts of everyday stains including coffee and lipstick whilst using a tiny fraction of the water used by conventional washing machines.” Mr. Stephen is founder director of Xerox. Xerox, is commercialising the technology, and the wander invented machine is to hit the UK markets as early as 2009. It will be affordable in comparison to conventional washing machines.
Dr Rob Rule, MD of Techtran Ltd, IP Group’s Leeds business as well as director of Xerox, commented: “This is one of the most surprising and remarkable technologies I have encountered in recent years.”
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