[sauravt]

Someone should make a solar powered washing machine that runs off the grid and doesn't need to be fed with a water supply (recycles its own water usage, use UV beams to kill germs) Only external inputs are detergant and sunlight, output is dirt and heat.

[pjc50]

Why? Why have its own compact set of expensive recycling infrastructure and storage when you have the grid for that?

[glenneroo]

Recycling the water would actually be beneficial for our oceans[0].

[0]: https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/24/18513393/avengers-endgame...

[return1]

> recycles its own water usage, use UV beams to kill germs

balloon the clothes up to the stratosphere, then let them sink in a lake

[ccozan]

That is doable. The cloths we wear and send to wash are nowhere that dirty as it was 50 years ago. Some smart filter would actually recycle the water.

Power is a different thing, you could connect it to whatever eco-friendly source you have.