In the future, the way your clothes get dry after they are washed may not involve exposing them to heat or prolonged exposure to air, but may instead involve ultrasonic amplifiers, which can make water molecules so excited that they virtually jump out of wet fabric.
Thanks to work being done today at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, in partnership with China's Haier-owned GE Appliances, that possibility is much closer to reality today. (HT: Core77).
Other than the technology itself and the sheer speed that it can dry fabric, the most surprising thing we learned from watching the video above is that 1% of all electricity generated annually in the U.S. today is used to dry clothes after they are washed.
Now, if we can just get the technology behind dessicant-enhanced evaporative cooling into residential air conditioning units, the amount of electricity that Americans consume to keep cool during the summer might be reduced below the 5% of all electricity generated in the U.S. annually that it takes to do the job today, without any loss of quality of life.
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