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Finally, a Green Clothes Dryer?

by Waylon Lewis, elephantjournal.com on Feb 6, 2009

Via our friends at Greenupgrader, some good news in the not-wanting-to-suck-our-earth-dry department. Excerpt:

Little known fact: there is no ENERGY STAR rating for energy-efficient clothes dryers. That’s because they really don’t exist. Until… now?

Later this year, Hydromatic Technologies Corporation will introduce their new DryerMiser technology which promises to cut the energy use of clothes drying in half…

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DryerMiser will first be available as a $300 conversion kit, which could be installed by an electrician or service provider “in about an hour.” The company hopes to further license the technology to dryer manufacturers so it will come pre-installed.

Clothes dryers are reportedly the second-most energy-intensive devices…for the rest, click here.