Comments on: Your Dryer Could Make Electricity Too

By: Corey

Corey — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:43:52 +0000

This is a great idea, as tumble dryers use a tremendous amount of energy.

You can use spin dryers such as at http://www.laundry-alternative.com instead of or to complement conventional tumble dryers, as they are about 100 times as energy efficient.

By: Generating Your Own Electricity

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By: Susan Kraemer

Susan Kraemer — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 01:29:40 +0000

Conversely: in order for you to benefit ‘tomorrow’, this company needs to do some R&D today. That’s not vaporware, its an essential step.

If nobody ever ‘looked’ for anything new, we would not have ‘developed’ the use of fire yet.

By: Spuffler

Spuffler — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:44:40 +0000

Vaporware. The company is still ‘developing’ the product, does not have a product.

It is really nice to have someone ‘looking’ for new technology, but nobody is going to benefit today from the efforts which hope to produce something ‘eventually’.

By: Susan Kraemer

Susan Kraemer — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 16:06:42 +0000

Combined -cycle heat and power is quite common. Many companies make electricity from waste heat, such as (to quote my Massachusets Institute of Technology source).
“And it will face plenty of competition as the market heats up, Taylor warns. A crop of companies, including larger players such as United Technologies, which makes aircraft, aerospace systems, and air conditioning, and smaller companies such as ElectraTherm, are also pursuing low-temperature technologies–and they already have systems installed.”

Here are their links
http://www.utc.com/utc/home.html
This Electratherm website explains it well:
http://www.electratherm.com/

What is new here, is capturing much lower heat. (And the dryer can be run on either gas or electricity: it’s the heat that is important).
You are utilizing the waste heat being thrown off by the dryer.

By: Nate

Nate — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 15:11:35 +0000

What mandrill said.

By: mandrill

mandrill — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 02:06:07 +0000

Erm… perpetual motion machine anyone?
How can a clothes dryer, which is consuming alot less than half the electricity you use in your house then be made to supply half of it? You can’t get more out that you put in, basic thermodynamics. It may be that you get half of the power used by the dryer back in which case its simply a more efficient dryer, nothing more. what you’re suggesting this device is capable of sounds to me to be nothing short of magic, involving the suspension of quite a few laws of physics.

I’ll believe it when I see it.