Siemens Zeolith Dishwasher Uses Moisture-Sucking Minerals To Boost Efficiency
Image via Dvice Engineers at Siemens have figured out a clever way recycle some of the energy a dishwasher uses during the wash cycle to make the dry cycle more efficient.
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Siemens Zeolith Dishwasher Uses Moisture-Sucking Minerals To Boost Efficiency
Laundry’s Dirty Secret: The Overdose Dilemma
Photo: Method Guest contributor Adam Lowry is the founder of Method. I blog here about design as intention, which is to say that if you broaden your design intention to include social and environmental factors, your designs can become transformational.
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Laundry’s Dirty Secret: The Overdose Dilemma
How Our Bones Inspire Architecture, Chairs and Cars
Material is expensive and so is the energy used to make it. You should put the material where it is needed and take it away from where it is doing no good.
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How Our Bones Inspire Architecture, Chairs and Cars
SoCal Utilities Turn to Ice Energy to Put the Chill on Peak Demand
The Southern California Public Power Authority and Ice Energy are launching a project to shift 53 megawatts of peak-time power consumption to hours of lower demand by deploying units that make and use ice to run air conditioners.
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Apple’s new iPad is Deep Green, but a Planet-Saver? Nope.
Apple’s long, long, long-awaited new tablet computer has finally been released to the wild, and while the iPad is a pretty nifty looking machine, it’s unlikely to be a game-changer for the planet.
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Common Disinfectants Create Mutant Superbugs
December 28, 2009 by
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Ultra-resistant mutant bacteria–more frightening than sci-fi movies from the 1980s. Film still: The Fly The manufacturers of cleaning products have made a lot of money convincing people that they are under constant assault from harmful bacteria . We’ve been told that the only way to keep our families safe and ensure good health is to disinfect, disinfect, disinfect! But, according to the latest research, all this superfluous …
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Mop More Efficiently; Separate the Waters!
Carlos Rivadulla got the idea when he was sweeping floors in the army, and now, a few years later and with the help of his brother Juan Rivadulla, the siblings launched the Ecofrego , an eco-friendlier bucket that separates the clean water from the dirty one. It is really quite straightforward and we are surprised this hasn’t hit the market until now. A simple tweak to the traditional cleaning bucket can save you water, soap, and work….
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Mop More Efficiently; Separate the Waters!
Mop More Efficiently; Separate the Waters!
Carlos Rivadulla got the idea when he was sweeping floors in the army, and now, a few years later and with the help of his brother Juan Rivadulla, the siblings launched the Ecofrego , an eco-friendlier bucket that separates the clean water from the dirty one. It is really quite straightforward and we are surprised this hasn’t hit the market until now. A simple tweak to the traditional cleaning bucket can save you water, soap, and work…
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Mop More Efficiently; Separate the Waters!
Mop More Efficiently; Separate the Waters!
Carlos Rivadulla got the idea when he was sweeping floors in the army, and now, a few years later and with the help of his brother Juan Rivadulla, the siblings launched the Ecofrego , an eco-friendlier bucket that separates the clean water from the dirty one. It is really quite straightforward and we are surprised this hasn’t hit the market until now.
More here:
Mop More Efficiently; Separate the Waters!
Mop More Efficiently; Separate the Waters!
Carlos Rivadulla got the idea when he was sweeping floors in the army, and now, a few years later and with the help of his brother Juan Rivadulla, the siblings launched the Ecofrego , an eco-friendlier bucket that separates the clean water from the dirty one. It is really quite straightforward and we are surprised this hasn’t hit the market until now. A simple tweak to the traditional cleaning bucket can save you water, soap, and work…
The rest is here:
Mop More Efficiently; Separate the Waters!