[Greenbuilding] FW: ENERGY STAR Clothes Dryers Program Launch

[RON RANCOURT]

I've been wanting to try a clothes spinner to get more water out than
my spin cycle can manage.  Anyone have an opinion / experience using
these?

Ron Rancourt

On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 1:21 AM, Reuben Deumling <9watts at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 10:06 PM, Matt Dirksen <dirksengreen at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> I can then logically assume that a more efficient car isn't going to solve
>> anything either.... Speaking of peak oil. :)
>
> Yes.
>>
>>
>> On a personal note, we really, really tried to line dry all our clothes,
>> but when it came down to having to stick them back in the dryer afterward,
>> due to the pounds of pollen on three kids worth of laundry, and the constant
>> fear of deer tick exposure (Greenbelt, MD)... It became quite difficult for
>> the sake of a few kWh's of electricity.
>
> You think allergies are bad now. Wait until we experience the full effects
> of clothes dryer and air conditioner exacerbated climate change.
> http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=climate-change-expands-allergy-risk
>>
>>
>> The least the DoE can do is create a goal so high that the companies will
>> have to think differently in order to achieve it... Especially if they all
>> work on the same principle.
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> That is not, generally, how DOE works. They don't set targets high. The
> point is to sell more appliances, accelerate product turnover, not to reduce
> energy consumption.  Generally appliance efficiency standards don't make
> much of a dent in electricity consumption overall. We are plenty clever as a
> species and keep thinking of new or additional ways to consume electricity
> that eats up what little may have been saved at the device level.... moral
> hazard, rebound effect, Jevons' paradox; we have a lot of names for the
> failure of energy efficiency as practiced to curb our appetite for kWh.
>
>
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