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Hanging out clothes on the line can be quite a chore, especially when you have children. Imagine a tumble dryer driven by a windmill where you can just toss the load straight in.
Using an old tumble dryer drum with holes slotted or enlarged for greater airflow, mounted on a frame with the drive connected
to the windmill by a series of shafts and perhaps a gearbox. Paint the drum black for greater heat absorption. A vane to keep the prop facing the wind.
Then the wind can do the work and collecting the clothes out is a doddle.
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I think I would call it something less, ...well... less
industrial. But I gave you an air dried bun. |
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Welcome to the halfbakery and I like your idea. +
though I agree with [blissy] on the title...
spinmill? |
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(sp. "vane") I like the idea of using power from windmills directly - i.e. for things which have to rotate - rather than going through inefficient energy conversion processes. |
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//can be quite a chore, especially when you have children//
Isn't the answer to cease having children? If everyone stopped procreating then pretty soon there wouldn't be a need for clothes at all, let alone a reason for washing them, as everyone will have died out. Seems simple to me. |
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//If everyone stopped procreating then pretty soon there wouldn't be a need for clothes at all, let alone a reason for washing them, as everyone will have died out// - yes, but this is an unverifiable claim - that is to say, there is no way of testing it, and therefore it is scientifically worthless. |
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I disagree, there is a very simple way of testing it. |
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I've got a sketch in my notebook of this very thing. Mine has a vertical axis turbine (Savonius or similar; can be made from an old 44 gallon drum cut in half) connected to a gearbox, so the turbine can catch winds from any direction without having to re-orient itself, and a black plate solar hot air generator below the tumbler to create a warm draft through the drum. |
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(+) Love it. I had the same Idea but for a black drum composter/ condenser. |
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That sketch would be cool to see [BunsenHoneydew]. |
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