Posted on 02/11/2024 7:08:14 AM PST by karpov
When Jessica Romer pulls clothes out of her new washer-dryer, they feel cool and a bit damp but dry to the touch within seconds.
Using no electric heating element or natural gas, the unit’s dryer employs a pump to draw in ambient heat from its surroundings, making it 50% more energy efficient than traditional models—though without producing that warm, toasty feel.
“It’s different and strange,” said Romer, who lives in northern Florida, “but it does work.”
Whether Romer’s heat-pump dryer represents the pinnacle of energy efficiency or just the latest stop on a long climb is part of a debate in Washington. The Energy Department requires appliance makers to meet efficiency standards that are periodically reviewed and tightened—a rule that sparked the recent tussle over gas stoves.
Manufacturers are pushing for a change.
An industry group says appliances are far more efficient than versions sold a few decades ago, and some can’t improve much more without harming performance. It wants evolving technology to drive the standards, not government timetables.
“The reality of the laws of physics that require some amount of energy and water for home appliances to keep food cold and to clean and dry clothes and dishes has to be recognized,” Kevin Messner, chief policy officer of the Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers, told a congressional hearing last year.
Andrew deLaski of the Appliance Standards Awareness Project, which advocates for greater energy efficiency, said government pressure is necessary to keep the breakthroughs coming.
When a new standard goes into effect, manufacturers and their engineering teams have an incentive to develop a higher level of efficiency because there will be a market demand for it, according to deLaski.
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So if it’s pulling heat from my house, doesn’t my furnace need to work harder?
They are hell bent on making life impossible and its deliberate. Time to dust off the guillotine
Bkmk
Our washer and dryer are in the coolest part of the house, the basement. How does that work?
Find out which pols are getting paid by the heat-pump dryer people.
Guillotine them AND the heat-pump dryer people.
you’ve obviously had a little bit too much to think...
Silly. Don’t you realize the democrats have discovered that yes, indeed there is such a thing a free lunch.
It will work the same way the heat pump heating system in my house works. It will just blow cold air. My daughter visited me recently and said it’s just like an air conditioner blowing cold air on you all the time. Yes, it is I said standing there dressed in flannel Pj bottoms, a t-shirt, a turtleneck sweater, a hoodie, and my bathrobe while also wearing 2 pairs of heavy socks.
Absolutely spot on. It’s a style of thinking driven by darkness, and it’s pervasive, now, in every social institution we’ve built up over the centuries. The people given over to this condition don’t realize that they’re insane, and have convinced themselves that their aims are just and right. There is no reasoning with them, and they are very actively —and very successfully— destroying our civilization (which used to elevate humanity). What to do?
Perfect visual description.
It merely moves the heat around, using the cooling effect to condense the moisture so it can pump the water to drain, while heating the drying clothes and recirculating air. It works VERY well, and is markedly more efficient. There is actually a very small net heat GAIN from the process.
The woman’s problem is that her dryer needs an adjustment to dry a little longer. Not really that big a deal. We here in North America tend to over-dry our laundry anyway.
Public hangings also need to make a comeback.
What to do? KTF KTA
[[Manufacturers are pushing for a change. ]]
Why? Do they cost more and also break down often requiring buying new ones more often?
Life, Liberty, a Fire in the Fireplace, a Gas Stove, a Gasoline-powered Snow Blower, a Gasoline-powered Lawn More, a Diesel-powered Farm Tractor, a . . .
Next they will tell us that there is no need for dryers because global warming will handle all of the drying for us.
Gotta keep the people working and economy going/producing. jmo
You shoulda stepped outside to warm up. 😆
You’re correct. It puts a sickening knot in my stomach, and I’d rather NOT die in a “civil war”, but you’re correct.
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