2 billion people do not have a washing machine

4 billion people use a washing machine

1 billion people don't do their own wash -
someone does it for them probably
which group are you in?

Because of global climate change
this is what we need by 2050
by using green energy

Dee Finney's blog

start date July 20, 2011

today's date April 7, 2013

page 480

TOPIC:  THE WASHING MACHINE VS ENERGY

4-7-13 - DREAM - I was in my house and I had started the laundry earlier.  It was time to get that load out and put in another load of blankets I wanted to wash.

I looked out the window into the yard and then downward like I'd be able to see into the basement where the washing machine was, but I couldn't see it, so I had to go down into the basement.

So, I went down into the basement and didn't see my washing machine where I had left it.

I started to feel a little angry, and I saw my daughter-in-law Becky down in the basement, and I called over to her, "Who stole my washing machine?"

She pointed over farther in the basement and said, "Mr. Irving took it!"

I looked where she was pointing, and my washing machine was up against the far wall, along with a whole lot of other things that were for sale in a hardware store.

http://irvingruan.com/post/5184158568/hans-rosling-the-magic-washing-machine

WATCH THE VIDEO TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THIS PAGE IS ABOUT!

Many women in Africa still do their laundry this way.   Probably in China and North Korea too.

Some women in India and other countries still do as well. No doubt in South America, Central America and some parts of Mexico.

The early machines in America

A washing machine (laundry machine, clothes washer, or washer) is a machine to wash laundry, such as clothing and sheets. The term is mostly applied only to machines that use water as opposed to dry cleaning (which uses alternative cleaning fluids, and is performed by specialist businesses) or ultrasonic cleaners. Washing entails immersing, dipping, rubbing, or scrubbing in water usually accompanied by detergent, or bleach. The simplest machines may simply agitate clothes in water while switched on; automatic machines may fill, empty, wash, spin, and heat in a cycle. Most washing machines remove substantial amounts of water from the laundry at the end of a wash cycle, but do not completely dry it.

This is similar to the washing machine we used in the 1940's.  See the wringer on top?  My great aunt got her hand and arm caught in a wringer
like that was crippled for life because of it.  

My mother still used a wash scrub board and boiled water on a small gas stove to get it hot enough to clean work clothes and dirty socks.

You couldn't wash curtains in that though - that was always done by hand and the curtains stretched on a large frame with a million tiny nails
around the edges.  I always helped with that job.

We always hauled the rugs outside and hung them over thick ropes and pounded the crap out of them every spring.

We didn't have a vaccum cleaner, just a push sweeper that only picked up threads and big things - not the dirt.  That's what we pounded out of it.

Nowadays, women want hardwood floors. 

We had hardwood floors throughout the house - why didn't the women like them?  They were always dusty.

Women don't know how good it is to have carpet you can vaccum -  if you don't like dusting - you won't like hardwood floors either.

Wringing by machine

After the items were washed and rinsed, water had to be removed by twisting. To help reduce this labor, the wringer/mangle machine was developed.

The mangle used two rollers under spring tension to squeeze water out of clothing and household linen. Each laundry item would be fed through the wringer separately. The first wringers were hand-cranked, but were eventually included as a powered attachment above the washer tub. The wringer would be swung over the wash tub so that extracted wash water would fall back into the tub to be reused for the next load. As implied by the term "mangle," these early machines were quite dangerous, especially if powered and not hand-driven. A user's fingers, hand, arm, or hair could become entangled in the laundry being squeezed, resulting in horrific injuries; unwary bystanders, such as children, could also be caught and hurt. Safer mechanisms were developed over time, and the more hazardous designs were eventually outlawed.

The modern process of water removal by spinning did not come into use until electric motors were developed. Spinning requires a constant high-speed power source, and was originally done in a separate device known as an "extractor". A load of washed laundry would be transferred from the wash tub to the extractor basket, and the water spun out in a separate operation.^[5] These early extractors were often dangerous to use, since unevenly distributed loads would cause the machine to shake violently. Many efforts were been made to counteract the shaking of unstable loads, such as mounting the spinning basket on a free-floating shock-absorbing frame to absorb minor imbalances, and a bump switch to detect severe movement and stop the machine so that the load could be manually redistributed.

In the 1960's, I had a spinner washer.  You had to stand there and watch the laundry spin in the spinner side of the washer so the washing machine
wouldn't walk across the floor by itself.  That was fun!  It took a lot of time too because you had to be there through the whole wash cycle.

We didn't have a dryer then either - that came later.  All the laundry had to be taken outside and hung on the wash lines in the breeze. 

My mother-in-law had colder weather than we had, and she'd hang her laundry outside and it would freeze, and then piece by piece, she would bring it
into the house and hang a few pieces over the wood stove until it dried...  that took all day to do. 

Laundry was not fun back then, but it was better than this:

So why do women have to do laundry like this?  Lack of electricity mostly.  Lack of running water.  Lack of water wells.

Lack of money to purchase those things.  Lack of people to install those things even if they had money because they
aren't even living near towns where such things might be available.

Here is the production of washing machines as of 2005

Production by country

• 1 China 30,355,000 (2005)
• 2 Italy 9,680,000 (2004)
• 3 United States of America 9,531,000 (2003)
• 4 Republic of Korea (South Korea) 4,977,000 (2003)
• 5 Germany 4,856,000 (2003)
• 6 France 3,618,000 (2004)
• 7 Japan 2,622,000 (2005)
• 8 Turkey 2,471,000 (2003)
• 9 Brazil 2,266,000 (2003)
• 10 Mexico 1,547,000 (2003)
• 11 Poland 1,481,000 (2005)
• 12 Ukraine 322,000 (2005)
• 13 Sweden 124,000 (2003)
• 14 Kazakhstan 72,800 (2005)
• 15 Belarus 36,700 (2005)
• 16 Republic of Moldova 36,200 (2005)
• 17 Romania 25,000 (2005)
• 18 Uzbekistan 700 (2005)

Source: http://statinfo.biz/Geomap.aspx?region=world&act=6133&lang=2

Social impact

The historically laborious process of washing clothes (a task which often had a whole day set aside to perform) has at times been labelled "woman's work".

In 2009 L'Osservatore Romano published an article entitled "The Washing Machine and the Liberation of Women" that as controversially meant to demonstrate that the washing machine had done more for the liberation of women than the contraceptive pill and abortion rights, which are often associated with Women's Day. The article shocked Italian feminists and provoked criticism from Opposition MP Paola Concia. A study from Université de Montréal, Canada presented a similar point of view.

Swedish statistician Hans Rosling suggested that the positive effect the washing machine had on the liberation of women, makes it "the greatest invention of the industrial revolution".

Environmental impact

Due to the increasing cost of repairs relative to the price of a washing machine, there has been a major decline in the number of washing machines being repaired, rather than discarded, when faulty, to the detriment of the environment. The cost of repair and the expected life of the machine once repaired often make the purchase of a new machine seen like the better option.

Different washing machine models vary widely in their use of water, detergent, and energy. The energy required for heating is large compared to that used by lighting, electric motors and electronic devices. Because of their use of hot water, washing machines are among the largest consumers of energy in a typical modern home.

NOTE:  I'm sure you want to know the following energy saving tips:

Washing Machine Energy Saving Tips