International Clothesline Week????

[perc-o-prince]

Who knew?? I saw it in our local paper, but they didn't have the same article on their website. Luckily, the author is syndicated!!

Chuck

http://www.wickedlocal.com/ghs-news...-thought-we-d-left-the-clothesline-out-to-dry

 

[perc-o-prince]

Here's another link I came across for the same event.....

http://www.wellness-mania.com/international-clothesline-week.html

 

[toggleswitch2]

~1.saves up to 10% of residential energy; Running a dryer 20 hours a month will cost you on average 100 kilowatt hours. A clothesline's operating costs are zero!!

This implies that each load uses 5.0 kwh. If that were the case, the heating 5,000 watt element would be "on" for the full hour. WRONG!

According to Consumer Reports magazine a U.S dryer averages 2.5 +/- kwh per load. Maybe less now with high spin-speed front-loaders. So if this is the case the heater is on about 1/2 the time, overall.

 

[maytagbear]

In pieces advocating

line drying, some have "iffy" statistics. Plus, most pieces I have read (I have read a few, not all) ignore the presence of gas heated dryers. I would bet almost anything that a gas heated dryer is between line drying and an electric dryer in overall efficiency.

It's still cheaper to run a gas heated dryer here in NortheastOhioLand (as East Ohio Gas used to call it) than it is to use an electric.

As I have said, I would dry on a line, (at least seasonally,) if I could dry someplace other than my front yard. Worse yet, my new upstairs neighbours throw their cigarette butts outside their front window.

Lawrence/Maytagbear

 

[toggleswitch2]

Good points Lawrence!

Here in my area a gas dryer costs 1/3 of what it costs to run an electric dryer.
So assuming $0.18 per kwh that's $.45 per load (electric) or $0.15 with gas.

I now rack-dry when I can (lack of adequate electricity helps to this end), but the #$%^& heavy obnoxious spices of the neighbors makes the clothes stink!

 

[kenmoreforever]

Can you fathom the amout of electricty saved on that one day if ALL would hang out? I'm sure one of the resident mathmatecians will have a pretty close answer to this one in theory.