From what I can read they are electric dryers. I also saw mention of also having a smaller laundry kind of hinting at self service on that one. Lint removal should have been at least a D-1 on the equipment's PMS requirement meaning daily.
The overlords in DC both in Congress and Pentagon need to pull their heads out of their butts. You can not put a ship to sea for nearly a year and not believe it won't harm ship nor crew. We are at a bare bones carrier fleet. The very fact of FORDS deployment's prove it. The reactor can run 50 years the crew and auxiliary machinery can't hold up to this type over abuse. This has been happening since the days of GHW Bush and it needs to end.
Put on hold the CVN builds and build four conventional CV's then resume CVN building. SWE can have three - four CV's active and on deployment schedule in the times Newport News is taking to build one CVN and a CV which is conventional steamer have the same maintenance downtime requirement as a CVN. The forever deployed CV capability is urban legend farce. It's not possible and it needs correction. We need to be back up to 15 active duty carriers. If left uncorrected the CVN build program and our carrier fleet will collapse to about 6.
Do you really think that the U.S. Navy that can’t design and build a new type of frigate for the past 30 years will be able to design, and build, a whole new type of CV in less than a lifetime?