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Haier WasH20 just came with a new and innovative washing machine, that can save you the money you spend on detergent or soap. The Haier WasH2O washing machine doesn’t use any detergents !!! This washing machine works by breaking water molecules into its OH- and H=+ ions components. OH- acts as the cleaning agent by attracting and retaining stains while the H+ ions sterilizes the clothes. If this new washing machine is so great I’m sure that in the next years everybody will want one. Until now this washing machine will be on sale in France for $957 around €699 soon. – Product Page

Detergentless Haier WasH20 Washing Machine

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TexasBiggerThanFrance Says:
August 1st, 2007 at 9:16 pm
Not one post about France’s aversion to soap???
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Gizmodo Technology » Washing Machine: Detergentless Haier Washing Machine Uses Ions to Clean Skid Marks Says:
August 1st, 2007 at 7:05 pm
[...] Instead of using detergent, this Haier WasH2O uses ions to get rid of brown and yellow stains in your clothes. The WasH2O breaks up water into OH- and H+ ions, where the OH- “attracts” stains and the H+ ions “sterilize” the clothes. We don’t know anything about chemistry, but that sounds like black magic to us. Will this be a world-changing innovative product, or will this be like the Segway? [Wash2O via Oh Gizmo via Freshome] [...]
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Washerguy Says:
August 1st, 2007 at 6:59 pm
Marketing hype. The energy used to split a water molecule will quickly put this out of Energy Star range. Then having supremely explosive hydrogen gas around and extremely corrosive hydroxide around? Yeah, right…
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Washing Machine: Detergentless Haier Washing Machine Uses Ions to Clean Skid Marks · Latest Information Says:
August 1st, 2007 at 6:39 pm
[...] Instead of using detergent, this Haier WasH2O uses ions to get rid of brown and yellow stains in your clothes. The WasH2O breaks up water into OH- and H+ ions, where the OH- “attracts” stains and the H+ ions “sterilizes” the clothes. We don’t know anything about chemistry, but that sounds like black magic to us. Will this be a world-changing innovative product, or will this be like the Segway? [Wash2O via Oh Gizmo via Freshome] [...]
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Gizmodo Says:
August 1st, 2007 at 6:12 pm
Detergentless Haier Washing Machine Uses Ions to Clean Skid Marks…

Instead of using detergent, this Haier WasH2O uses ions to get rid of brown and yellow stains in your clothes. The WasH2O breaks up water into OH- and H+ ions, where the OH- “attracts” stains and the H+ ions “sterilizes”……
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Jack Black Says:
August 1st, 2007 at 5:48 pm
Yeh. This H+ and OH- ionic crap would technically be electrolysis.

This thing won’t work. That OXY company a few years back had those detergent balls that did a similar thing with ‘ionizing’ water. CR tested them- they did nothing. You be better off buying front-load washer and using no detergent or organic detergent than thing.
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Sam Says:
August 1st, 2007 at 4:45 pm
Ahh.. the blue laundry disc is reborn! Someone please teach the new generation about “structured water.”
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August 1st, 2007 at 4:45 pm
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stupid invention Says:
August 1st, 2007 at 4:23 pm
This will not work well if at all.
Someone needs a chemistry lesson in detergents and how they work.
This is just going to waste much more power, then normal washer, and give you poorly washed and possibly damaged clothes.

you dont need a chemistry degree ( which i have) to figure this out this is just some cheezy gimmick to sell junk.
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August 1st, 2007 at 3:46 pm
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Gian Says:
August 1st, 2007 at 3:32 pm
Hah, can make Hidrogen boom out of it by collection the H+
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Chemist Says:
August 1st, 2007 at 2:24 pm
H+ ions are not going to combust and explode. That is what H2 does. However, H+ ions are the ‘active ingredient’ in a whole lot of acids. Hydrochloric Acid is H+ ions and Cl- ions. Let’s dip our clothes in acid!
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DamienKnight Says:
August 1st, 2007 at 2:16 pm
This technology has been around for a long time. You can buy spheres that you put fabric softener in (because you have to have SOMETHING to make the clothes smell good) that use the same process to clean your clothes without detergent.

My experience with it was less than exciting. If you use no chemicals at all, your clothes dont smell good when they come out. If you have to go out and buy fabric softener all the time, it defeats the purpose of not using detergent.

This will -not- catch on.
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Mike Says:
August 1st, 2007 at 2:06 pm
H+ Ions in water have no real way to become “H2″ gas.. the stuff that burns… in a situation like this.

You would need a pretty significant chemical reaction occurring in the wash cycle, consuming the OH- Ions without affecting the H+…

H+ ions are what make what you call “Acid”. the fact that there is also equal numbers OH- ions in the water too makes the solution “neutral” in pH, but it may be pretty active chemically.

if Hydroxide ions (0H-) are truly the most important part of laundry detergent (and other things to help suspend dirt/grease/etc are not really necessary), then this would work well. If you need the other stuff in Detergent, then I don’t think this would work very well, overall.
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Rimmer Says:
August 1st, 2007 at 1:58 pm
So, what are those loading windows for?
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August 1st, 2007 at 1:46 pm
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HappyCabbage Says:
August 1st, 2007 at 1:18 pm
Four years ago I owned a Haier washing machine and it was total JUNK, got rid of it after a year and a half. Also, no supprise its being sold in France first because the French are known to use very little soap.
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Fabio Says:
August 1st, 2007 at 1:02 pm
i’m in ur lndry r00m

washin’ yr cl0dz
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Robin Haswell Says:
August 1st, 2007 at 12:58 pm
The fact that this thing probably works via electrolysis means its energy rating will be huge, and therefore overall probably terrible for the environment.

I’m a bit confused about how it claims to work though. Liquid water partly breaks into H+ and OH- ions as standard (anyone remember pH levels?) confuses me about how its cleaning ability will be any better than water. Are they supplying more free electrons to increase the solvent ability of water? What about organic solutes? I’d love to see any machine make water dissolve oil without additives, personally.

@Eh: I doubt that those are for “dihydrogen” and “oxide”, I hope you were joking. I’d say fabric softener & the like, or maybe just “it’s a mock-up”?

@Entertained: I suggest you either go back to or complete high school before you discuss ionic chemistry online.
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Tez Says:
August 1st, 2007 at 12:49 pm
Fire, yeah right, the small amount of OH- and H+ particles needed is small. The load isn’t made of JUST OH- and H+. Its diluted into GALLONS OF WATER!@# All you need is a small trickle to clean your clothes. It’d probably be so small that not even having water in there wouldn’t mean a fire. Use common sense and don’t post articles trying to sound scientific. The product will be tested and it won’t come to market if it becomes dangerous. Stop with the doom and gloom.
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Drew Says:
August 1st, 2007 at 12:43 pm
But if it doesn’t use soap/detergent then will your clothes still smell like crap when you take them out?
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August 1st, 2007 at 12:15 pm
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Game Designer Says:
August 1st, 2007 at 11:16 am
Interesting. Can’t wait to see it in action.

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Eh Says:
August 1st, 2007 at 10:58 am
There are two cleaning trays. One for the Dihydrogen and the other for Oxide.
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Smif Says:
August 1st, 2007 at 8:35 am
Just a curiosity point … Why does a machine which doesn’t need detergent to perform it’s cleaning functions require (apparently) two detergent trays ??
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aldehyde Says:
August 1st, 2007 at 8:13 am
“Entertained Aug 1st, 2007 at 3:57 am

Hah! So what happens if a pocket of H+ gets together and becomes ignited somehow – with tons of OH- around to suck up the reaction?

Poof… oh crap, there go my clothes!

Yeah, I know that probably wouldn’t happen but…”

You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about.
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mieses Says:
August 1st, 2007 at 8:08 am
what happens if you put detergent in it?
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j gebhart Says:
August 1st, 2007 at 7:30 am
The detergentless washer I saw on Beyond Tomorrow was about 20 years ago (pre-1988). I think it was from a Japanese company and it worked on ultrasound and microbubbles. I remember them saying detergent makers were concerned about it and at least one company was trying to get the manufacturer to develop a “sweet smelling” additive to use with it. Regardless, it would be cool to see a detergentless washer come to market with an affordable price tag.
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hyundai parts Says:
August 1st, 2007 at 7:06 am
This is particularly interesting – I’d love to see how it actually performs in independent tests.
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Steve Says:
August 1st, 2007 at 5:22 am
I dunno, I think I’ll wait til a price drop

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Jason Says:
August 1st, 2007 at 5:18 am
Excellent! And a very reasonable price tag. Ordinarily you’d see these inventions sell for thousands of dollars placing them outside of a normal household income. I’d love to have one of these.
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Thom Bouis, CSP Says:
August 1st, 2007 at 4:49 am
Great concept, just that “oxy” cleaning no matter whether added chemically or generated within, really doesn’t ever clean as well as all of the advertising hype. In fact, I have yet to have a satisfactory experience with chemically added “oxy” cleaning agents whether directly applied or added to the total washing solution.

As for the free Hydrogen generated, product safety is a serious issue, the potential for entrapped H-gas accumulation and explosion/fire within the environment of an electrically powered appliance should be worrisome. Before bringing such an appliance into my home, I would want to see an intrinsically-safe fire-safety-rating with a mean time between failure rate of less than 1 in 100 million cycles.

I do applaud the manufacturing for trying, its at least a step in the right direction whether its perfected yet or not. I would expect that adding a low-power pulse ultrasonic transducer would make a huge difference in the cleaning effectiveness while adding relatively little to the overall cost as “off-the-shelf” ultrasonic transducers are readily available and extremely low cost.

Relatively few studies are available documenting the limitations and effectiveness of aqueous exposure to free Hydrogen ions in solution as a method of sterilization. Conversely, the effectiveness of “ozone” as a sterilization method for aqueous solutions is well known and is commonly used for large commercial aquariums such as the Baltimore Aquarium. Generating small amounts of ozone injected into an aqueous wash solution should be no challenge at all and a lot less fire and explosion risk to manage than generating free hydrogen in any quantity.
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Brent Says:
August 1st, 2007 at 4:43 am
Sounds awesome. I wonder if it works.
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S. Lever Says:
August 1st, 2007 at 4:03 am
This has to be so cool, in fact you be able to save on pollution and perfume odours in sewage streams
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Entertained Says:
August 1st, 2007 at 3:57 am
Hah! So what happens if a pocket of H+ gets together and becomes ignited somehow – with tons of OH- around to suck up the reaction?

Poof… oh crap, there go my clothes!

Yeah, I know that probably wouldn’t happen but…
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klipseracer Says:
August 1st, 2007 at 3:29 am
Yay. I’d rather have a maid.
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venki Says:
August 1st, 2007 at 3:19 am
wow…..interesting invention….
hope this will make a revolution in washing segment…
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Chris Says:
August 1st, 2007 at 3:13 am
This is particularly interesting – I’d love to see how it actually performs in independent tests.
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Ita ibrahim Says:
August 1st, 2007 at 3:10 am
amazing
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aaa Says:
August 1st, 2007 at 2:57 am
But will it blend?
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creep Says:
August 1st, 2007 at 2:56 am
what will it do to my cat?
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DavidGX Says:
August 1st, 2007 at 2:49 am
Looks awesome, sounds awesome, can’t wait to see one in person.

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Ben Baker Says:
August 1st, 2007 at 2:43 am
OMFG Thats amazing.. … it will be mine.
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sheasie Says:
August 1st, 2007 at 2:40 am
so, to save the environment, all you need to do is buy ANOTHER washing machine (manufactured in a coal-powered warehouse out of mined materials, petroleum-based compounds – only to shipped across the planet on ocean polluting barge)?! yay, i doing my part to help preserve the environment!
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BILZ Says:
August 1st, 2007 at 2:36 am
I remember seeing something like this on a TV show like 10 years ago, I think the show was called Beyond tomorrow. I’m glad to finally see it coming to market.
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Fallout911 Says:
August 1st, 2007 at 2:32 am
i can has Detergentless Haier WasH20 Washing Machine?
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David Says:
August 1st, 2007 at 1:13 am
The most basic part of soap is hydroxide, but I can’t imagine how they would be able to create a washer that either wouldn’t need replacing of something every so often, even if a year, or would have to heat or use some sort of energy to charge the molecules. I’ll wait and see about this one…
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nathan Says:
August 1st, 2007 at 1:07 am
soooo whats the energy star rating on this?
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B Man Says:
August 1st, 2007 at 12:59 am
I want one. Oh I’m so ready for something like this. Its not that it’s $$$ to buy the darn detergent, it’s just that when I’m out I keep on forgetting to go to the store to pick up detergent, even if it is on the way home. I just want to “set it and forget it.”