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DOE_ZELF_NORMAAL t1_iqsjzca wrote
Reply to comment by biggsteve81 in My mother's ~33 year old Whirlpool dryer. Still works amazing! by vocke
It must be a translation thing then. Here in the Netherlands you can buy 2 types of dryers, a condenser dryer or a heat pump dryer. I have no idea what you mean with a 'standard clothes dryer' because in the Netherlands it's those 2. Even after googling I couldnt find a different type of dryer from those 2. Maybe the one you mean is so old it hasen't been sold for decades here.
DOE_ZELF_NORMAAL t1_iqr0kwc wrote
Reply to comment by nalc in My mother's ~33 year old Whirlpool dryer. Still works amazing! by vocke
No, not really.. wire hearing element dryers (or condenser dryers as they are actually called) have greatly improved energy usage (as in a 3 fold from a decade ago). And besides that heat pump dryers are VERY much affordable now which have even less power consumption.
I do agree that a good washing machine with a good centrifugal function saves a lot of energy on your dryer. But that doesn't mean getting a new dryer doesn't greatly reduce energy consumption.
DOE_ZELF_NORMAAL t1_iqpyjxn wrote
Reply to comment by The_Dead_See in My mother's ~33 year old Whirlpool dryer. Still works amazing! by vocke
I do wonder about the energy use. I had a 15 year old dryer which used 3.5 kWh per run and replaced it with a new one which took less than 1 kWh. With the current prices here in Europe it paid itself back in just over a year.
DOE_ZELF_NORMAAL t1_iqnxfmc wrote
Reply to My grandma owns a lot of machinery she really bought for life in the 50s/60s/70s... Some examples. by worldiscubik
I'm just going to say that safety features weren't as prominent as they are today. Be careful with really old equipment like that, wouldn't be the first time something breaks putting live on the outside of the equipment.
DOE_ZELF_NORMAAL t1_ivq2u1y wrote
Reply to My 17 year old IBM Thinkpad T43 connecting to the internet at 800+Mbit/s by edwardianpug
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