Let's go back to talking about ecological cleaning, this time to present a dryer that can drastically reduce energy costs and energy consumption (up to 80%, according to the manufacturer) compared to conventional devices. How? Using the sun's heat to eliminate moisture from our garments.
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Let's go talk about ecological cleaning, this time to present adryer able to drastically reduce energy costs and energy consumption (up to 80%, according to what the manufacturer declares) compared to conventional devices. How? By leveraging the heat of the sun to eliminate moisture from our garments.
The first solar dryer, presented at IFA 2011, the Berlin fair of electronics and appliances for the home, was born thanks to the collaboration between the German Miele, a famous manufacturer of household appliances, and Solvis, a company that develops and produces solar energy systems.
Until now it was not possible use the sun's energy without first converting it into electricity, but now, thanks to new technologies and solar thermal, the new Miele dryer will be connected directly to a cover of solar-thermal collectors, combined with a stratified accumulator of thermal energy. The collectors will be crossed by a heat transfer fluid channeled into a solar circuit which will carry it to the accumulator.
Energy losses will then be averted, thanks to a closed circuit, with 4 pipes that will allow the heat extracted during the condensation process to be reintroduced into the storage tank. Finally, do not worry in case of bad weather or at night: the thermal energy maintained by the tank will guarantee aautonomy for many hours and the dryer can also be connected to other types of power supply.
The Miele solar dryer will be launched on the market within the next year.
Good news for those who do not want to deprive themselves of this appliance with the excuse of tight deadlines, of the general run-of-the-mill, of the little space to hang out or of the weather conditions. We, however, continue to prefer laundry hanging in the open air: with this drying 100% natural you get to save 1 ton of CO2: this is green! In the face of all the Americans, the major users of the tumble dryer since the war, who still believe that hanging out the laundry is synonymous with backwardness, poverty and immigration.
Green light, therefore, to clothes racks and ropes, so that our clothes can always be kissed by the sun and lapped by the wind. In the face of those who believe that the fluttering clothes in the alleys of our villages, with their complex system of pulleys and tie rods, are an image to be canceled with municipal ordinances on public decorum.
Roberta Ragni
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