poltr1 | I still hate hot-air hand dryers....

In many public restrooms I've been in over the years, there are no paper or cloth towels provided for me to dry my hands after washing them. Instead, I gotta press the button and rub my hands under the stream of warm air. And they usually shut off about 10 seconds before my hands are totally dry. Grr argh.

Do they really save natural resources as they claim? Yes, they don't generate paper towel waste or require laundering after done. But paper is a renewable resource. Electricity is clean energy, except for where it's often generated -- coal or nuclear power plants. And I just can't blow my nose or clean up a dirty kid with a stream of hot air.

I think there's a little cult going around that scratches the words "WIPE HANDS ON PANTS" as an added instruction on some of them.

I recently found a hot-air dryer that's effective: Excel's XLerator hand dryer. The airflow is turbo-charged or something, but it gets the job done before it shuts off! The only drawback is that it's noisier than the other hot-air hand dryers.