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  From the second they said ‘it takes less energy to evaporate water because it’s a vacuum’ my scammer sense was tingling! This is thermodynamics 101 you should know if you’re making a dryer. The whole thing exudes snake oil. Everywhere they have PR shots of the same ‘dryer’ but when it comes to video of it actually working, there is almost nothing. Indeed the more I poke around on their material, the more Im convinced this thing has never worked- not even as a prototype.  There simply isn’t enough room on the inside of this device for any workings. There isn’t enough room or structural integrity to run this under vacuum. Even if there were, the drain draw cannot work unless its under vacuum too.  It clearly isn’t because it has no seal.

They have since written a reply to me (on the kickstarter page) which has cemented my resolve to visit this topic again. They claim they will have more video of it working up ‘soon’. My prediction is like with Fontus…. No… no they wont!

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Anonymous

The problem is that this is the sort of science that's taught in schools. I was taught that water boils in vacuum. Watching your experiments has shown me just how wrong my text books and teachers were.

EEVblog

Will be interesting to see what / if they put a video up. Probably worth waiting some time for that. Do you plan on responding to various comments that you have somehow got it wrong? (I know, internet Youtube comments... but it seems to be quite a few)

Anonymous

Oh man, don't get me started on some highschool science teachers. I've had long drawn out arguments with TEACHERS who sit there saying "If you drop a feather and bowling ball off a building roof, both will fall at the same speed." woefully neglecting the extra bit "~ if in a vacuum." When I try to point it out to those teachers, they name drop NDGT (as if he ever said that) and try to claim "In or out of a vacuum it's true!" Thankfully, there aren't too many teachers who are that poorly informed, but there are a few. But yeah, there are a few misinformed teachers on the subject of vacuums. I'm totally not surprised many get the whole boiling thing confused.