This is a recent e-mail from "ECVL":
"Here is my high tech energy saving device: wooden drying racks. I put them in the basement next to the furnace. I still put towels and underwear in the dryer, but the dark wash gets hung up.
We've lived in this house for 10 years. I do wash every day, but alternate dark and white wash each day. Ain't it exciting! At 40 cents per load, that is .40 x 182.5 days, or $73. After all these years, the savings equal the cost of our new energy- efficient front-loading washer, which uses very little water. Less water to heat if I wash on warm, so more savings!
Newer houses have laundry rooms upstairs where there's no place to hang clothes to dry. Everything has to go into the dryer. Boo, Hiss.Put the washer next to the furnace! You can exercise by taking
clothes up and down the stairs. Then you don't need a stair master or to drive to the gym! More savings!"
Editor's note: You can expect an electric clothes dryer to run at about 5000 watts. If a cycle is about 45 minutes, that's 0.75 hours. So the arithmetic would go like this: 5000 x .75 x 182.5 (days) = 684,375 watt-hours, or 684.375 kilowatt-hours, or 23.35 therms. Excellent!
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