Having bought a washing machine lately I realized again how incredibly unhelpful the EU energy labels have become.
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Yep they have, except maybe cheapest ones.
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Wow, nice. The idea of "energy efficient" dryer here is tuning the sensing-dry mode to shut off while the clothes are still wet so you have to keep restarting it, and only measuring energy used til the first time it cuts off for the advertised "efficiency".
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So from what I've quickly browsed, everything sold here is condensing (no ventilation of wet air to outside), and most indeed have heat pump (A++ and better). Back to the original topic, maybe the EU energy labels did help here?
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to be clear: I'm certain the energy label system has helped in the past. It just lacks an update mechanism. It's a label for the best technology of 2011 - which was helpful in 2011.
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I think labels should be ascending (not A being best and then add some +++ to it) and they should be based on absolute numbers AND the ranges for one label category must be a lot smaller looking at todays efficiencies. 200kWh difference in one category is simply too much.
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To be fair, US gas-powered dryers are probably a better idea than burning gas to boil water to generate steam to turn a turbine to make electricity to make heat.
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Some places have gas, but it's expensive, unsafe, and still inefficient compared to heat pump.
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Inefficient? Including the ~3:1 conversion losses (I.e. from gas to electricity to heat)? Where do the safety concerns come from, given we have gas hobs, ovens and central heating boilers, and electric dryers are a fire hazard if they aren't kept clean?
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