Are air dryers sanitary or not?

空气干燥器是否卫生？

But after reviewing people's behavior, studies showed that most individuals spent only 22 seconds with an air dryer, leaving their hands less than 70% dry.

但观察大众的行为，研究显示大部分的人只花22秒用烘手机，手烘干的程度低于百分之七十。

Environmentally, however, paper towels lose - through their whole life cycle, they release more greenhouse gases than the hot air dryer.

然而，在环境方面，纸巾会损失 - 在其整个生命周期中，它们比热风干燥机释放更多的温室气体。

The average air dryer requires nearly 45 seconds to reduce hand moisture by 97%, whereas paper towel users achieve the same thing in around only 10 seconds.

平均下来，烘手机需要45秒才可去除手上百分之九十七的湿气，而纸巾只要在十秒内也能达到同样效果。

Hot air dryers need 40 - and, let's be honest, how many of us commit that much time to drying our hands?

热风烘干机需要 40 个——老实说，我们中有多少人花那么多时间来烘干我们的手？

So studies like this kinda suggest that air dryers -- especially jet air dryers -- have way more potential to spread germs than paper towels.

所以像这样的研究有点表明空气干燥器——尤其是喷射空气干燥器——比纸巾更有可能传播细菌。

Throughout the room, the jet air dryer made about 20 times more plaques than the warm air, and about 190 times more than paper towels.

在整个房间内，喷气式空气干燥器产生的斑块比暖空气多约 20 倍，比纸巾多约 190 倍。

That being said, we’re not positive how different hand-drying methods can affect human health, despite all the clickbaity headlines about air dryers spreading germs.

话虽如此， 我们并不肯定不同的干手方法如何影响人类健康，尽管所有关于空气干燥器传播细菌的点击头条新闻。

They had participants dry their virus-coated hands with paper towels, warm air dryers, and those new-ish jet dryers the ones that blast high-speed cool air.

他们让参与者用纸巾、暖风干燥机和那些喷射高速冷空气的新型喷射干燥机擦干沾满病毒的手。

About half a meter away, they found that the jet air dryer created about 60 times more plaques than the warm air dryer, and about 1,300 times more plaques than paper towels.

在大约半米外，他们发现喷射空气干燥器产生的斑块比暖风干燥器多 60 倍，比纸巾多 1300 倍。