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The government already has too much power. All we need are more freaked-out climate-change hysterical millennials who want to force their agenda on the rest of us by getting the government to enforce more bans and regulations. UGH.
There’s no wonder why we have such a divide in opinions today since an ever increasing amount of people here want things banned, controlled and more regulations. It’s more about common sense when using electricity or any other resource that we have, it’s an individual responsibility to conserve or waste but guess that some people don’t see it that way❗️
Rick Steves, on his travel show talks about using clothes that wash and dry easily. He hand washes the clothes in the sink and hang dries them overnight. Inside.
I don't buy the argument that people can't do this or don't have enough space in their house to hang them. Nope. That doesn't sound right.
Please I want to see the UTube video of you hand washing clothes and linens for a family of four and hanging it all over the house. Start withe diapers please.
Please I want to see the UTube video of you hand washing clothes and linens for a family of four and hanging it all over the house. Start withe diapers please.
I heard a good discussion today about how some people don't use dryers because they are a waste of electricity. They say that hanging their clothes dries almost as fast sometimes.
This made sense. I usually will take out shirts and pants before they are done drying to eliminate wrinkles. But the smaller items don't even require that much care. I will literally have to keep setting a dryer for extended periods just to finish drying some socks. But isn't this kind of a waste of electricity? Especially if they can get dry just as fast by hanging?
What do you think? Should they be banned for home use?
I heard a good discussion today about how some people don't use dryers because they are a waste of electricity. They say that hanging their clothes dries almost as fast sometimes.
This made sense. I usually will take out shirts and pants before they are done drying to eliminate wrinkles. But the smaller items don't even require that much care. I will literally have to keep setting a dryer for extended periods just to finish drying some socks. But isn't this kind of a waste of electricity? Especially if they can get dry just as fast by hanging?
What do you think? Should they be banned for home use?
Really.....that is one of the dumbest questions I have seen on here yet.
The power company bills you on Watt hours. This is the energy that you used and its power * time or watts times time. For example, a 100 watt appliance that is on for 10 hours will consume 1000 watt hours (or 1KWH). But a 10 watt device that is on for 100 hours will also consume the same 1000 watt hours. So you have to not only consider the power an appliance uses but also how long it is on.
I did a quick google search for how much power home appliances use and found this calculator.
Ran some numbers in that calculator where I had to enter the number of devices and the hours used.
I guesed that a clothes dryer only gets used about 1/2 hour per day on average. Even though the clothes dyer is much higher power than a fridge, the fridge is on 24 hours a day so they end up using about the same energy per day.
And for the numbers I picked, switching from incandescent lights to LED lights saves about the same power that using the dryer for 1/2 hour a day uses.
You "could" use the heat from the dryer to heat the house in the winter.
I say "could" because its somewhat difficult to find some sort of filter for the exhaust air that removes the lint if the hot air is kept inside the house. I tried to find something at HD in the past and the only thing I found was some some flimsy plastic thing that held water.. didnt work very well. Plus its a hassle to switch between venting outside and venting into a filter for inside.
Ban clothing dryers? - Is this another brilliant idea out of CA?
I know it's fashionable to blame California for every harebrained idea, but most people in California have gas dryers, and they use very little energy. I live there and have never had an electric dryer in my life.
I hang a lot of clothes outside on racks. We're not supposed to have clotheslines visible from the street, but yards here are fenced, and it's not hard to work around; just get racks under 6 feet tall. I do put towels, sheets, and a few other things in the dryer, though. I like to make use of the fresh air and sun, but I'm even more glad to have options.
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