Airblade: The Green Hand Dryer

Can you imagine how much waste there is in public washrooms across the world?

Traditional hand dryers are power suckers, heating up air. Paper towels waste a tremendous amount of paper. Well this is the Dyson Airblade. It’s like a hand dryer, but it doesn’t exactly dry your hands, it more wipes them clean… with air.

See the Airblade does not try to evaporate the water from your hands, it instead blasts the water off your hands using a very thin, 400mph sheet of air. It doesn’t have to heat up the air first, saving huge amounts of electricity. In fact, the Airblade is 80% more efficient.

It also saves on paper waste, a 100% reduction! When the p

rice of the unit is taken into account, you get a savings of about 98%. No wonder it’s the only hand dryer to be certified by NSF International.

All this will dry your hands in about 12 seconds. Pretty slick.

Check out the technology behind it here (click for a bigger photo):

 via EcoGeek

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