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If it works it could help the drought here in California. (But they'd still cut off all the farmers' water)

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Dryers are the real energy sinks.

[gusopol3]

Meanwhile, your clothes are in tatters after the third cleaning.

[headstamp 2]

Must be fantastic with dirty diapers and other incredibly dirty work clothes. Nothing like water to carry that away.

I’m a bit skeptical.

[Raycpa]

Can’t wait for the new law requiring us to use the new washers and the new excise tax on the old washers.

[dhs12345]

Hmmm. Plastic. Isn't plastic made from crude oil. You know, that nasty stuff that no one likes. And where does the dirty plastic go? Recycled if you are lucky. Most likely the landfill.

[fatnotlazy]

No thank you. I’ll keep my water guzzler.

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[SoothingDave]

What keeps all your pockets from getting filled with beads?

[chiefqc]

Can’t wait to see the extreme cost for this product, would not be surprised to see it cost more that a ten year water bill.

[Jim Robinson]

I think Rush Limbaugh Parodies, Ltd holds a patent on this idea.

[cyclotic]

And how do you get the little beads our of your pockets. My wife despises our nanny state washing machine. It is a top load that pre-dispenses a government determined amount of water, albeit not enough to actually wash the clothes or even remove the soap. (she uses about half of the recommended amount of soap)

She’s constantly going downstairs o dump a bucket of water in the washer so it actually works.

[jughandle]

Interesting, cost? Looks like it’s only a commercial machine right now.

[grania]

Most people use much more water than is necessary to do a wash. I’d rather conserve by using less water than by battering my clothing with enviornmentally unfriendly plastic pellets.

[trisham]

No thanks. I’ll bet that the clothing “washed” this way wears out three times as fast.

[JoeFromSidney]

Nearly twenty years ago I had a consulting job with a Turkish firm that made white goods: washers, dryers, etc. They explained their R&D problem to me. To sell in Europe, they had to meet EU specifications for things like water consumption, electricity consumption, and noise level. Each year the responsible EU agency would look at the performance of each model on the market. For the next year, they would set the specifications based on the "best" 90% (as I recall) of this year's models. "What? You can't meet the spec? But 90% of all the models on the market this year met it." So the EU kept driving down the water & electricity consumption, noise level, etc. year after year.

Part of my job was to help them forecast what the specs would be in future years, so that their R&D lab could get started early on meeting them. One of the issues was, just what was the theoretical least possible water consumption to wash clothes? I wonder what this innovation will do to EU requirements for minimizing water consumption.

[Beagle8U]

“including a spot on the WWF’s list of Green Game-Changers.”

The World Wrestling Federation is into greenie washing machines?

[The Working Man]

I seem to recall that New York has outlawed face washes and other products that use ‘micro-beads’ because they are clogging up the sewers. What makes these ‘beads’ any less likely to end up in the sewers or landfills?

Or are they completely recyclable and the consumer will have to take them to special reclamation sites?

[Cyber Liberty]

Sounds like another “weird trick.”

This “washer beads” quackery raises its head every decade or so....

[SolidRedState]

I don’t know about wawshing clothes, but I woudl liek to try those beads for cleaning brass for reloading.

[bunkerhill7]

2 hands , a washboard and elbow grease reduce electricity by 100%, water by 99%.