Clothes Drying Racks: Effective

by Justin Thomas on May 31, 2005

f00754_dt.jpgIf you dry your clothes on these racks instead of a clothes dryer — they will smell fresher and last longer. In many homes, the clothes dryer is the number two electricity consumer, after the refrigerator.

Used in combination with a Spin-X: metaefficient.

GreenFeet sells clothes drying racks made of reclaimed wood. The Vermont Country Store sell large racks made of birch dowel.

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John David April 21, 2008 at 1:05 pm

My landlord recently replaced my aging dryer with another old dryer. But THIS old dryer runs on 120V which means that I can finally plug it into my Kill-A-Watt. Drying a load of laundry takes about 1.1 KWH. Yikes. That’s roughly a fourth of my daily consumption.

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