The energy savings potential is enormous because conventional clothes dryers using thermal heat currently consume about 1 of the energy used in the united states momen noted.
Ultrasonic clothes dryer cost.
Drying energy in north america is responsible for 15 of the country s energy consumption.
Momen expects the ultrasonic dryer will cost consumers as little as 500 and will cut down on the whopping 9 billion americans spend to power their dryers every year.
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Department of energy and general electric have developed a prototype clothes dryer that can dry a load in about half the time a traditional dryer will take using ultrasonic sound rather.
Ultrasonic dryers may be.
At least that s how it goes in a lab at oak ridge national laboratory where researchers have built an ultrasonic clothes dryer.
Using an ultrasonic process instead could cut drying time in half and use perhaps one tenth of the power with resulting savings in energy cost and time kisner said.
Forget heat drying laundry is about cranking up the volume.
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It works by using piezoelectric transducers a device that converts electricity to vibration.
Unlike traditional dryers that rely on heat to evaporate the water out of clothes the ultrasonic dryer uses a completely different process that s less energy intensive.
A typical clothes dryer works the same way dryers have worked for decades blowing hot air in an energy sucking process that costs americans 9 billion a year.
Ultrasonic clothes dryer no heat needed.
This is equivalent to tens of billion dollars in energy bills annually.
Once items emerge from an ultrasonic unit they still must be dried quickly to maintain their pristine state.