We all love to consume less energy and lower our utility bills without sacrifice. At Going True Green’s blog and website we present details to accomplish just that… However, with everything in life, we must be educated on all aspects of any project. Let us first review the excellent money and energy saving step of having a clothes Dryer that uses Natural Gas instead of Electricity to dry clothes. The difference in cost is a tremendous 75 percent!
For example, if using electric heat to dry your clothes had a cost of $1.00, that cost would only be 25 cents if natural gas was used to dry the same clothes. This savings is even better than the preliminary savings reported on the new Heat Pump electric* dryers. I will continue to research the new Heat Pump dryers, but as of now they will save people changing from electric dryers about 53 percent. Nevertheless, we have to compare that to a change from an electric dryer to a gas dryer that offers up to a 75% savings. The issue with this is that you need the availability of natural gas, if your utility doesn’t have gas lines in the ground nearby, then you may wish to consider the new Heat Pump dryers. If you already have a gas dryer, the numbers seem to show that changing to a Heat Pump dryer will RAISE your energy cost. So no action required, not with a 75% savings being had.
Heat Pump electric dryers take the heated exhaust air, remove the moisture and pump the air back in to help dry the clothes faster. However, they still use electricity to heat the air. As of now, Going True Green has not ascertained if they are available (or will be available) to use natural gas to dry clothes instead of using electricity. If they become available with natural gas, that will make them the most efficient. Yet, there is the high purchase cost of a Heat Pump dryer to consider. We will provide additional data in future blogs and our online classes.
So the break down in efficiency for clothes dryers is as follows: electric being the most expensive, then the heat pump dryers also using electricity, close behind would be a dryer using liquid propane gas, and natural gas being the most energy efficient.
The final part of this blog posting is the first word in the title: FIRE. The number one cause of household fires are from dryers! More to the point… The lint build up in the dryer or vent. Even if you clean the lint screen each and every time you do a load, lint will still build up inside and around the dryer. Lint especially builds up in the vent and you should have your dryer professionally cleaned every few years. The images on the left shows a gas dryer being serviced and cleaned by Richie’s L.I. Appliance Service who GTG thanks for providing the photograph images. The solid clump of lint in his hand built up despite normal use and lint screen cleaning. The danger about all that lint, it is an excellent fire starter. So for safety reasons have your dryer professionally checked and cleaned.
For more details you can visit our parent website: EnergyHotwire… Here is the Link directly to page 6 on dryers that has more information about Dryer Safety Facts.
Bill Lauto, GTG
Environmental Scientist at
GoingTrueGreen.com
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Mr. Lauto has an Environmental Science degree from St. John's University, Energy Auditor Certification from New York Institute of Technology, and Certification in Thermal/Heating from S.U.N.Y. at Farmingdale. He interned at Equitable Environmental Health that brought him to evaluate the environment at LILCO's Nuclear power plant that never opened. As an entrepreneur, he operates EnergyHotwire.com, GoingTrueGreen.com and holds a U.S. Patent with a Trademark on an environmental and energy-related product.
Mr. Lauto has done and managed thousands of energy audits for homeowners. Not one recommended a single action that implied sacrifice. He never stated once that to save money and energy one must turn down their thermostat and wear a sweater. During the 20th Anniversary of Earth Day, Bill Lauto was the Energy Advisor to the Earth Day Committee in New York. Mr. Lauto was the attending expert witness to the press conferences of former New York’s Major Dinkins and Commissioner Mark Green. His expertise has been utilized by power companies such as: the New York Power Authority and the Long Island Lighting Company as well as by Mr. Mark Green, former Commissioner of Consumer Affairs, NYC.
Mr. Lauto has served as the Environmental and Energy expert on several television news and radio talk shows. He has provided information and consulting services on topics such as: air, cooling, heating, lighting, appliances, recycling stations, solar, wind, bio-fuels, hydrogen and water to: Clearwater, Consumer Report Magazine, European American Bank, Home Depot, LILCO, NBC, Macy*s, New York Power Authority, NYPIRG, Time Warner, EPA, thousands of homeowners, celebrities, small businesses, nonprofit organizations, and many government accounts.
Information about Mr. Lauto, his articles, and work have been published in newspapers across the country, including: Consumer Report magazine, Kiplinger's Financial magazine and Business Ethics magazine. Mr. Lauto has been interviewed by ABC news, the New York Times, Cable News L.I. and was in a special television home audit hosted by Al Roker of NBC, but was never aired due to breaking news.
For over twenty years, Mr. Lauto has been stating that we don’t need foreign oil, we have the technology to make America energy independent. EnergyHotwire.com serves to educate the public for free on how to lower energy cost by 60% or more, while GoingTrueGreen.com uses videos and Mr. Lauto's Blog to help dispel mis-information and provide the facts about truly Going Green.
