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Tumble dryers can also use heat pumps now.

• dymk 2y ago
  99.9% of them do not. “Tumble dryer” means resistive or gas heating unless otherwise specified.
  • causality0 2y ago
    What are you talking about? Even ten years ago heat pump dryers made up 43% of dryer sales in Europe, and it's only gone up. https://storage.topten.eu/source/files/EEDAL15_Eric_Bush_Heat_Pump_Tumble_Driers.pdf https://storage.topten.eu/source/files/EEDAL15_Eric_Bush_Hea...
    • dymk 2y ago
      Well that's interesting, I didn't realize it was so different in the EU. I suppose differences in energy prices and political willpower might explain it. In the US, the idea of a heat pump dryer is still more or less a foreign concept due to the price.