But even in these environments efficiency can give way to a different standard and many times in my travels, I have noticed that clothes return from cleaning more than slightly damp.

In the West, environments are often wet and cold. I can recall times in my youth when it would take days for clothes to dry outside-sometimes through freezing and thaw cycles. In cities, such clothes might eventually be recovered quite dirty from the environment.

In the Winter, drying clothes and air quality can both improve because the heated air causes relative humidity indoors to drop to arid levels. Sadly then, it is space and time that become the primary issues that may also benefit from the wisdom of the East.

Dr.A.Jagadeesh Nellore(AP),India
E-mail: anumakonda.jagadeesh@gmail.com

But even more intriguing is that by applying just a little intelligence as in this system we can avoid the wast of simply blasting our clothes with lots of excess heat that may be simply wasted. It is a good example for other industries.

Now as the unit has no outside vent, what are we going to do with the lint not captured by a simple screen?

Here is an idea that came to me years ago and it coalesced in my thinking yet again just recently regarding surpassing the 20% window of energy collected by our best solar panels.

I was reading how Mandelbrot’s research and book, “The Fractal Geometry of Nature”, inspired a young ham radio operator to bend antenna wire into a simple fractal shape for better reception.
His hope was to copy how nature uses 3d space to maximum efficiency of energy flow, be it water, wind, plant patterns through fractal patterns.

His efforts were shockingly effective. It seems the fractal shapes that repeats in nature imposed on the wire, lead to a greater collection capacity of all wavelengths for his ham radio.

I am sure you are very aware where that per chance experiment lead to in the antenna world of cell phone development. Early cell phones needed a separate antenna for every function but now, due to science adopting fractal patterning of the cell phone antenna wafers, Iphones and every kind of wireless communications are possible.

So I wondered… If these very fractal shapes, inherent in nature, were so successful in collecting radio frequencies, could fractals be used in the development of nanoscale solar antennas? Could the solar cells themselves or the antenna shapes, be configured to these self similar fractal patterns, boosting efficiency of nano antennas to collect infrared solar energy?

Is any work being done combining nano antenna solar and fractal patterning?

Please run with this if it is viable.

Thanks for your time,
Mark Welsh