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Very Fast Dryer

 Seperate water molecule
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In a conventional dryer, the water is evaporated from the clothes. This takes a long time, as we all know. I thought that there may be a process where water could be seperated into it's hydrogen and oxygen components and removed from the clothes that way. Maybe something like electrolysis could work.
—edicus, Nov 29 2004

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       OK, but how would that be faster than evaporation? How would you complete the process once the surface of the fabric is dry and the electrodes no longer contact the moisture?   

       Solve these problems and I'll bun it.
—Freefall, Nov 29 2004
   

       A durable plastic dryer with a microwave safe door... catching my [sub]-idea here?   

       Microwaves heat water v. fast.   

       Hmmmm... what about metal zippers....
—not_only_but_also, Nov 30 2004
   

       While it is true that this would remove the water from your clothes, there's a slight problem. Splitting water into its component atoms takes no less than 100 times the energy required to evaporate the same ammount of water. Also there's the sticky issue of your dryer emitting superheated (you didn't think electrolysis was 100% efficient, did you?) hydrogen and oxygen in the exact 2:1 ratio required for combustion. Rocket-powered dryer, anyone?   

       On a side-note, microwaves don't split water into H2 and O2, they just agitate it (heat it up).
—EdgeOfEpsilon, Feb 07 2005
   

       This Idea sounds neat but I just don't like doing the laundry every nanosecond.
—WhirlyTwirley, Apr 04 2006
   


 

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