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	Washing machine uses just one cup of water

valann 47

6-23-2009 10:29 AM

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washing machine, water, eco friendly

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6-23-2009 1:23 PM

tanyamm

Sounds good but how much much are these machines going to cost.

6-23-2009 3:05 PM

Antara

Finally the breakthrough means that smelly hippies won't have an excuse not to wash their clothes.

LOL

6-23-2009 4:22 PM

thisnamecantbetaken

How much are new beads? Or are they re-usable? If so, how you wash dirty-sucking beads clean before they suck the dirt back up? How many loads of wash can one batch of beads clean? How many beads per wash? Or do you add them by weight?

This is way too complicated....

6-23-2009 5:33 PM

tazmanium

I resent the "smelly hippies" remark.

6-23-2009 5:55 PM

iulawboy

Smelly hippies may still well object to using plastic polymers to clean their clothes. We need to know how environmentally sensitive those beads are before we throwout the bathwater with the baby.

6-24-2009 8:50 AM

tazmanium

"Throwout the bathwater with the baby" LOL

6-24-2009 10:16 AM

Fast T friend

this may also make driers redundant. good idea

6-24-2009 1:17 PM

darkduskx

Ha, nylon polymer beads needed huh?

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