In the Blue Light
Thanks to Dyson's smarmy British-inflected ads, people have become inured to the idea of a high-tech, $400 vacuum cleaner. And now there's a new high-tech model from a company called Halo that not only promises to really suck up the dirt, but also sterilize your carpet in the process.
While those aren't two images one necessarily wants to picture in tandem, Halo is hoping that people suffering from allergies--as well as plain old germaphobes--will be happy to pony up $399 to really clean their carpets. And carpets are what Halo is after. The vacuum has a conventional rotating brush underneath and a HEPA filter. The unique feature is a an ultraviolet light bar just behind the brush that zaps germs and tasty items like dust mite feces hidden deep inside your carpet.
I saw the Halo UVX Ultraviolet Vacuum at a press event this week, but I have not had a chance to test one myself yet. However, ultraviolet light is quite effective at killing certain kinds of bacteria, such as in a water filtration system, so the Halo vacuum could be a big success. And the company assures me that the ultraviolet bulbs, which can be very expensive, will last for the life of the vacuum cleaner. The Halo UVX goes on sale this week at Amazon and at the company's Web site.
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Seems like a good idea But it is still a Vacuum Cleaner and all vacuum cleaners blow out a strong blast of air that disturbs the dust and allergens that are resting on the furniture. When are they going to realize this and start using Air Recycling Technology a system that instead of blowing out the exhaust air stream it returns it into the system to do work.
Market Transformation Program
Vacuum Cleaners - Energy Use
Tests By Intertek have shown that the Captive Airflow Cleaner using air recycling technology saves over 75% of electricity used by Vacuum Cleaners.
The DEFRA Market Transformation Program, say that Vacuum Cleaners in the UK use, 2 TWh of electricity each year.
It then follows that air recycling technology can save 1.5 TWh of electricity each year. See example below of what 1.5 TWh can do. “1 Energy use assumption
Typical vacuuming habits are thought to be around 1 hour per week per household, giving a typical weekly use of about 1.6 kWh, or 83 kWh per year, depending on energy consumption of the vacuum cleaner.
Assuming all households use a vacuum cleaner, then the UK energy use accountable to vacuum cleaners is nearly 2 Terawatts.”
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Three quarters of this energy is wasted and being blown around the room disturbing Allergens from the furniture.
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Intertek have also made tests for the DTI. on the prototype of a cleaner that can outperform a Vacuum Cleaner when using 75% less power. A saving of 75 %. ----------- This means that if Vacuum Cleaners were phased out in favour of the energy efficient Air Recycling Cleaner’s the saving in the UK alone would be 1.5 Terawatt hours of electricity every year. This would not only save, 150 million pounds worth of electricity each year it would also reduce the C02 carbon emissions by 645,000. Tons. More at --------- www.Edginton.info/arc
Thanks for looking. Ben.