[Greenbuilding] FW: ENERGY STAR Clothes Dryers Program Launch

[Corwyn]

On 7/21/2012 5:57 PM, Steven Tjiang wrote:
> Reuben, you're right in "purist" sense but I think the energy star dryer
> program is still a net win.
>
> A net win for the planet.  Think long term. If we run a program to
> convince people to line dry OR we make energy star dryers the standard,
> which one would result in less energy use for clothes drying?  Of
> course, we should do both.  BTW, clothes dryer don't have to use fossil
> fuels.  Mine is electric and when I use it, it is powered by renewables.

Thinking long term, any carbon put into the atmosphere stays there for 
around a century.  It doesn't care what you did to get it there.  It 
doesn't care how important you thought that convenience was.

If you are using renewables on clothes drying, that means they can't be 
used to replace someone else's fossil fuel usage.  So more fossil fuels 
get burned.  Until the entire grid is renewable, extravagant use of 
renewables means more fossil fuels burnt.


Thank You Kindly,

Corwyn


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