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Re:CES Was Full of Useless Robots and Machines That Don’t Work by jeisc on Monday January 15, 2018 @02:43AM (#16149169)
I want to put my dirty clothes in the hamper in the morning; and when I get home at night, they folded and pressed and placed in their proper place. In that way I could have so few garments which would reduce consumerism.
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Re:CES Was Full of Useless Robots and Machines That Don’t Work by rsynnott on Monday January 15, 2018 @09:57AM (#16150855)
This would almost inevitably be extremely wasteful; it's very inefficient to run any conceivable washing machine with almost nothing in it.
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Re:CES Was Full of Useless Robots and Machines That Don’t Work by daveguy on Monday January 15, 2018 @12:22PM (#16151857)
I think in that case the device that does this would include washing optimized for small loads. It wouldn't just dump a few pieces in your washer/dryer.
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Re:CES Was Full of Useless Robots and Machines That Don’t Work by jackvalentine on Monday January 15, 2018 @09:29PM (#16155314)
Like most things, there are economies of scale at play here. Energy use for one sock is not linearly scaled for 100 socks.
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Re:CES Was Full of Useless Robots and Machines That Don’t Work by daveguy on Thursday January 18, 2018 @10:48AM (#16177961)
That's mainly because of the size of the washer/dryer. A scaled down w/d would be much more efficient for 1 set of clothes than putting 1 set of clothes in a normal w/d.

Maybe more efficient if it is able to lay out each piece for drying. Clotheslines are very energy efficient.

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