If you think buying a device with "A+" energy is good - you'd be as wrong as it can get. A+ is the lowest category that's still allowed to be sold, although plenty of places will tell you the categories go down to D.
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Now the highest category is A+++. So you think buying an A+++ washing machine is pretty efficient? You'd be wrong again. The worst A+++ devices use twice as much electricity as the best ones on the market.
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The last update for these labels was 2011 in the case of washing machines. They're pretty much historic by now.
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Is energy use really a consideration for washing machines? Assuming you're also drying your laundry, >95% of the energy spent is going to be on drying anyway, no?
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I did a quick check, this doesn't seem to be close to true, it's more like 2:1. But it doesn't really matter for the point I'm trying to make: The labels for dryers are just as outdated. (Also I dry my laundry on the balcony.)
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Seems unlikely. In US dryer requires a 240V, 30A circuit at least. Washer is happy plugged in a normal outlet on a shared 120V 15A or 20A circuit. Also dryer runs much longer for same load. So I would expect something like 5:1 at best, more like 10:1 to 20:1.
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30A? What kind of dryers do you have? That sounds close to loading infrastructure for EVs.
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I think it might be non-condensing dryer? Our condenser is fine with the standard 16A 240V, I assume it uses even less...
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Your dryers have heat pump/dehumidifier in them?! Wow. Ours are literally big electric heaters.
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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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