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Condenser dryers are pretty slow, however, so I'm not sure it's a good solution for average people. They're nice when you don't have good infrastructure in pla

Condenser dryers are pretty slow, however, so I'm not sure it's a good solution for average people. They're nice when you don't have good infrastructure in place for a vented model, though.

cheschire 7y ago
Trading convenience for environment isn't a good solution for average people? Then we're fucked.
- xboxnolifes 7y ago
  Thinking that trading convenience for environment is going to work is why we aren't seeing change.
  - Symbiote 7y ago
    In the European Union the most inefficient devices are simply banned. (In some cases, I don't keep up-to-date with consumer appliances.) For tumble driers, scroll to the annex of https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32012R0932 https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A... "From 1 November 2015: — for condenser household tumble driers the energy efficiency index (EEI) shall be less than 76, — for condenser household tumble driers, the weighted condensation efficiency shall be not lower than 70 %." (And then a definition of what that means.)
  - rob74 7y ago
    Well, then we're fucked... because lots of things that are more convenient in the short term (energy-sucking appliances, plastic packaging, industrial agriculture, fossil fuels, you name it) will contribute to destroying the environment in the (not-so-)long term.
megablast 7y ago
Oh of course, I need this to dry my clothes I will not wear for days right now!! How silly to have to wait 2 hours instead of 1 hour
- rootusrootus 7y ago
  It's more like 2.5 hours versus 40 minutes, and not everyone is a bachelor who only has to wash & dry their own clothes.
EdwardDiego 7y ago
I bought a combined washer/condenser dryer. It usually took 3 - 5 hours to wash and dry a load, but it was ideal as a working solo Dad, I could put a load on before work, and it would be dry when I came home. Then I could put a load on before bed and it'd be dry in the morning. Not sure who the average person is, but if they have a job, I found that very convenient.
m4rtink 7y ago
Also most top loading combined models are like this.

Condenser dryers are pretty slow, however, so I'm not sure it's a good solution for average people. They're nice when you don't have good infrastructure in place for a vented model, though.

cheschire 7y ago

Trading convenience for environment isn't a good solution for average people? Then we're fucked.

xboxnolifes 7y ago
Thinking that trading convenience for environment is going to work is why we aren't seeing change.
- Symbiote 7y ago
  In the European Union the most inefficient devices are simply banned. (In some cases, I don't keep up-to-date with consumer appliances.) For tumble driers, scroll to the annex of https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32012R0932 https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A... "From 1 November 2015: — for condenser household tumble driers the energy efficiency index (EEI) shall be less than 76, — for condenser household tumble driers, the weighted condensation efficiency shall be not lower than 70 %." (And then a definition of what that means.)
- rob74 7y ago
  Well, then we're fucked... because lots of things that are more convenient in the short term (energy-sucking appliances, plastic packaging, industrial agriculture, fossil fuels, you name it) will contribute to destroying the environment in the (not-so-)long term.

megablast 7y ago

Oh of course, I need this to dry my clothes I will not wear for days right now!! How silly to have to wait 2 hours instead of 1 hour

rootusrootus 7y ago
It's more like 2.5 hours versus 40 minutes, and not everyone is a bachelor who only has to wash & dry their own clothes.

EdwardDiego 7y ago

I bought a combined washer/condenser dryer. It usually took 3 - 5 hours to wash and dry a load, but it was ideal as a working solo Dad, I could put a load on before work, and it would be dry when I came home. Then I could put a load on before bed and it'd be dry in the morning. Not sure who the average person is, but if they have a job, I found that very convenient.

m4rtink 7y ago

Also most top loading combined models are like this.