> Almost no manufacturer whose products are sold in the U.S. bothers to publish energy and water use per load specs in their user manuals or on their websites.

> Almost no manufacturer whose products are sold in the U.S. bothers to publish energy and water use per load specs in their user manuals or on their websites. They also don't tell you the temperature they use for Hot and Warm settings. That has been a problem for me too, and I've even contacted the manufacturer. How much energy do I save using cycle A over cycle B? It would be nice to make an informed choice. Edit: It applies to clothes washers, clothes dryers, and to dishwashers. For dryers: I don't grasp how the cycles differ in energy consumption. Evaporating away that mass of water will require a certain amount of energy. I see (non-physics-informed) people who advocate running dryers on a cooler cycle, but does that help? Doesn't it use the same amount of heat energy but spread out over a longer time, which would increase the drum-spinning energy required? I could imagine that somehow the cooler cycle is more efficient due to convection rate or something similar, but is it?