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What does your household do differently that allows your consumption to stay so low?
by bkjelden 9y ago
What does your household do differently that allows your consumption to stay so low?
- dboreham 9y agoI'll guess : hang up clothes rather than put them in the dryer?
- LeifCarrotson 9y agoNot even close. An electric clothes dryer on an eco-friendly cycle typically uses about 1 kW. Older models on higher-heat cycles use up to a staggering...4 kW. And that's just for the few hours a month that it runs, it will be off for the other 720 hours. The real difference is that OP probably lives in a well-insulated house in a moderate climate. In the hot, humid parts of the southern US, it's common to use 50 kWh/day just to keep the house liveable.
- dboreham 9y ago"Few hours a month" !! Ours runs for many hours every day.
- markvdb 9y agoFor clothes, we both hang up and use an efficient condensating drier. We live in a (renovated) townhouse/terraced house in a moderate climate indeed, with good insulation and ventilation. Limited always-on electric components here: fridge/freezer, internet modem, phone base station and ventilation system. No big screens. Cooking is electric though.