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Gas Stoves, Dishwashers and Dryers—the Growing Energy Battle Over Appliances
Wall Street Journal ^ | February 11, 2024 | John Keilman

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: appliances; dishwashers
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1 posted on 02/11/2024 7:08:14 AM PST by karpov
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So if it’s pulling heat from my house, doesn’t my furnace need to work harder?


2 posted on 02/11/2024 7:11:07 AM PST by P.O.E. (Pray for America.)
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To: P.O.E.

They are hell bent on making life impossible and its deliberate. Time to dust off the guillotine


3 posted on 02/11/2024 7:14:36 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: karpov

Bkmk


4 posted on 02/11/2024 7:14:43 AM PST by sauropod (The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly.)
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To: karpov

Our washer and dryer are in the coolest part of the house, the basement. How does that work?


5 posted on 02/11/2024 7:15:48 AM PST by bleach (If I agreed with you, we would both be wrong.)
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To: ronnie raygun
They are hell bent on making life impossible and its deliberate. Time to dust off the guillotine.

Find out which pols are getting paid by the heat-pump dryer people.

Guillotine them AND the heat-pump dryer people.

6 posted on 02/11/2024 7:18:53 AM PST by AAABEST (That time Washington DC became a corrupted, existential threat to us all...)
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To: P.O.E.

you’ve obviously had a little bit too much to think...


7 posted on 02/11/2024 7:19:55 AM PST by mo ("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you don't understand, no explanation is possible)
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To: P.O.E.

Silly. Don’t you realize the democrats have discovered that yes, indeed there is such a thing a free lunch.


8 posted on 02/11/2024 7:23:59 AM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative. . )
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To: bleach

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.


9 posted on 02/11/2024 7:26:32 AM PST by heylady
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To: ronnie raygun

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?


10 posted on 02/11/2024 7:28:03 AM PST by drwoof
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To: heylady

Perfect visual description.


11 posted on 02/11/2024 7:31:27 AM PST by bleach (If I agreed with you, we would both be wrong.)
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To: P.O.E.

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.


12 posted on 02/11/2024 7:35:54 AM PST by Don W (When blacks riot, neighborhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn)
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To: ronnie raygun

Public hangings also need to make a comeback.


13 posted on 02/11/2024 7:36:09 AM PST by Noumenon (You're not voting your way out of this. KTF)
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To: drwoof

What to do? KTF KTA


14 posted on 02/11/2024 7:37:48 AM PST by Noumenon (You're not voting your way out of this. KTF)
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To: karpov

[[Manufacturers are pushing for a change. ]]

Why? Do they cost more and also break down often requiring buying new ones more often?


15 posted on 02/11/2024 7:38:03 AM PST by Bob434
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To: karpov

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 . . .


16 posted on 02/11/2024 7:38:58 AM PST by linMcHlp
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To: karpov

Next they will tell us that there is no need for dryers because global warming will handle all of the drying for us.


17 posted on 02/11/2024 7:39:29 AM PST by Bob434
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To: Bob434

Gotta keep the people working and economy going/producing. jmo


18 posted on 02/11/2024 7:40:21 AM PST by deport
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To: heylady

You shoulda stepped outside to warm up. 😆


19 posted on 02/11/2024 7:41:51 AM PST by Bob434
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To: Noumenon

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.


20 posted on 02/11/2024 7:46:30 AM PST by drwoof
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