Europe’s Clothes Dryers Consume Half as Much Energy as America’s

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Like the vast majority of U.S. households, I own a clothes dryer that accounts for a non-trivial share of my electricity consumption.  Like the vast majority of my fellow Americans, I would likely pay a lot less to dry my clothes if I lived in Europe. 

Based on a new study by Ecova, an energy consulting firm in Spokane, WA, Europe’s embrace of new heat pump technologies is largely responsible for the transatlantic disparity in the energy efficiency of clothes dryers.  Unlike Europe, heat pump technology has yet to arrive in North America…