Product review (2 stars): Nice idea- Flawed design.
This machine has many nice features, and as green folks we love the concept- but it has one serious design flaw which causes it to leak water onto the floor after a few month's worth of use. We've seen over a half cup of leakage with heavier loads. In short: this machine may ruin your floors and require frequent visits from LG technicians and a lot of frustrating time on the line with customer support affirming that yes, indeed you do clean your lint trap, (we do, religiously), and no, the vent is not clogged.

So here's the issue: In a conventional dryer, most of the lint gets trapped in the lint trap, with the remainder going out the air vent (this is why you need to clean your dryer vent periodically). In this machine, the residual lint that evades the trap clogs the evaporator (a component of the hybrid system) and never makes it to the air vent. After the evaporator gets clogged with lint every few months, moisture gets trapped and condenses inside the machine and water droplets blow out through the back of machine where the air vent attaches.

We had a technician out, who discovered the cause of the problem. After he cleaned the evaporator, the machine functioned without leaking for a couple of months and then started leaking again. The technician came out again and found the evaporator clogged again. We suspect that the cleaning will become less effective over time as there are areas in the fins and inner surfaces of the evaporator that are hard to get to.

LG has yet to come up with a solution other than sending the tech again. Our warranty expires soon, and we have gotten uncertain information on whether LG will continue to service this design flaw without charge. In any case, it does not seem like a viable long term solution.

We appreciate that LG is trying to adopt a greener technology that has been available for many years in Europe. However, this is a new technology for LG . We did not realize that we were such early adopters of the LG product, and as such have learned the hard way that this early model has a major design flaw. We'll update again if we get a satisfactory solution.