Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Common laundry question

[Jerry McIntire (jerry.mcintire]

Thanks Nancy. Since we were able to power our house in Oregon with 3,000
kWh per year (2006), adding another 1,079 for dryer use would have been
significant. 25% of total household electricity use!

The refrigerator is the other big user, unless you have electric hot water.
Solar hot water is the quickest payback of all solar technologies.

Jerry

On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 2:00 AM, Nancy Baumeister <nancybee [at] peak.org> 
wrote:

> Laundry is a topic near to my heart. That would account for all the
> replies you in CoHo-land are getting from me.
>
> The average household with an electric clothes dryer will use 1,079 KWh
> per year to dry clothes (2001 data http://www.eia.gov/emeu/recs/**
> recs2001/enduse2001/**enduse2001.html<http://www.eia.gov/emeu/recs/recs2001/enduse2001/enduse2001.html>).
> That amount of electricity generated by our local utility produces about
> 2/3 of a ton of CO2 . 
> http://www.pacificpower.net/**ya/po/otou/fsei.html<http://www.pacificpower.net/ya/po/otou/fsei.html>
>
> For those wishing to reduce carbon footprint that is an easy way to lop
> off a big chunk.
>