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At last year’s CES, Haier showed off a transparent TV, which never took off for the obvious reason that nobody needs or wants a transparent TV. Today, a great leap forward: a neon, see-through washing machine. This is. The. Future.
Haier admits the see-through washer is a “concept piece,” which is more or less an admission of non-existence outside of CES—all we’re told is “The transparent washer is currently not slated for availability in 2013.” Maybe 2014. Maybe 2024. Maybe that’s a good thing—I doubt domestic England is ready to wash its clothes in an appliance that looks like a spacecraft warp core, and it’s hard to imagine the lighting makes the thing very green. But it’s nice to see something at the show that shows some joy, even if it’s a dumb, LSD joy. I’ll take this hoax of a washer over another Windows 8 tablet.
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I had to take my one apart recently in an effort to repair it myself as the warranty ended and it is not something I’d want to see lol. Though if there is a see through filter that would be great.
Sadly the board died on mine and another board was more expensive than a new washer. I find it crazy how these government schemes promote you buying a new washer that is energy efficient. Yet all that had to happen is a new component or new board and mine would have been fine. Keeping mine probably would have caused less pollution than buying a whole new one and now my old one is probably sitting in a dump somewhere.
The government don’t care about the environment though, they don’t care about the facts or if man caused global warming is true, they just wanna tax you and make money.
As long as the washer was recycled then it doesn’t really matter, it was old and near end of life. It becomes part of the economy again and parts and metals will be traded, sold etc… The pollution in creating the new one maybe offset by the efficiency, given it will used a lot less power, maybe 25-35%, a lot less water and gas and the parts it is built out of will also be a lot cleaner / more recyclable.
Government does care about the environment to a point and I don’t think you are qualified to comment on global warming. Energy efficiency is also as much about the cost of energy as it is environmental and is designed to save you money in the long run. The cost of power keeps rising you might be glad of it in the future.
Given that insurances companies are now predicting greater year on year catastrophes in the coming years and rising costs of payouts, even the money men are coming round to what the majority of scientists are saying.
Mine was only 5 years old and had all this energy saving bullshit I never used because it never washes the clothes as good. There comes a point where it cannot use any less power or any less water lol…
If you look at all the components on these boards and that make up these machines, they’re shipped from all over the world, to get made in China to then get shipped to several countries before it gets to this one :\
Like that alone is more energy than just sticking with my old one will ever produce.
The energy saving is also from the motor and how is uses the water, newer machines spray rather than flood the barrel.
I couldn’t find any info on shipping costs to the environment for a washing machine but I bet it is not that much as otherwise it would add a cost to the machine given it must uses a fair amount of fuel. The cumulative effect of all the shipping is of course something completely different.
I would have thought more than 5 years old as the board cost so much, usually these things can be found used in a number of shops in any large city. Usually the same guys who will take your old one off your hands for free / token payment. But these guys will also recycle the machine either selling the metal, to be used again or for parts to keep other machines alive. Unless you just dumped it in a river somewhere
I heard tales of forests being cut down to make recyclable materials, like in Madagascar…. recycling isn’t as good as just sticking with what you have. Especially all the effort that goes into melting it down, the stuff that isn’t reusable that gets dumped and then how it gets shipped again and again.
Ships don’t just use fuel, they sink, they cut up marine life to propel themselves, they get hijacked.
I tried to fix the board myself as I used to do that for a living lol. Some propitiatory chip that you cannot buy had got blown, besides placing the things are a nightmare by hand. Just cannot believe they charge so much for a new one, it’s obviously so you buy a whole new machine. These boards cost pennies to make, used to just drop them in a job I had before and throw them in a bin and start a new one from scratch cause it was quicker and cheaper lol.
Why are we using propitiatory tech these days? It isn’t good for any one, at least use common components that are shared.
Carrying on with the MS hate?
INSANE IN THE MEMBRANE! Does having the word “insane” in headlines really grab readers?
It’s all a precursor to my evil genius plan to take over the world; I use sensationalism to dumb down every extreme-end-of-the-scale word or phrase in the English language (awesome, epic, massive, insane), so then when I DO take over the world, no-one can accurately describe how actually bloody terrible it all was.
Fly, my pretties! Tell them all about the insane number of freakin’ awesome, brain-melting sprinkles that you saw on that donut the other day!
How about a transparent toilet with transparent plumbing throughout the house?
You could have turd time tials, take a dump upstairs and see how long it takes to wend its wacky way through you house after flushing.
It’ll be pooh sticks reimagined
I’d prefer a transparent dishwasher. Always wondered how the little elves in there make so much noise scrubbing the plates & cutlery.
this would be the worst washing machine for spiderman, he’d never hide that spandex suit