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June 24, 2009 
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I ran across a energy saving tip the other day while I was scanning the INTERNET. The tip said if you put a dry bath towel in the dryer with wet clothes, it will cut your drying time by 1/3 to 1/2. I find that hard to believe so, I’m doing the test as we speak. I’ve loaded the washer with clothes and when they are done, I’ll put them in the dryer and set a timer to see how long it takes. Now I already have a dryer that has a sensor to detect when the clothes are dry. But it will not tell me the total time it took to dry because as it dries, it adjust the time automatically. So I’ll set a timer on my phone so that I can start it as soon as I start the drier and turn it off when the drier beeps to let me know it’s done. So here I go. I’ll get back to you shortly……..
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Well, I’m back. Just to let you know exactly what I did, here goes:
1st Load: I washed a load of towels just as I normally would and when the washer was done, I put them in the dryer. When I hit start, I started the timer on my phone. 44.5 (44 minutes 30 seconds) later, the beeper went off. So I took the same load and rewashed them the same way. When the washer was done,
2nd Load: I put them in the dryer again except this time I put a dry bath towel in with them. I turned on the dryer and started my timer on my phone again. Then I waited, and waited, and waited some more. I didn’t think it was ever going to stop. Finally, the timer on my phone said 47 minutes. I turned it off and about 4 minutes later the buzzer went off on the dryer. I though that it might save a couple of minutes per load, but I didn’t expect it to take longer. I know this was not a scientific test, but how hard could it be to prove that it works or not? Maybe if I used clothes instead of towels. I don’t know. But I’m not impressed. This is not an energy saving tip I’ll be using nor one I would recommend to others!
If you have any other environmental or energy saving tips you want me to put to the test, let me know, I’ll try it out and report the results. Thanks for reading.
Carter
This covers all the bases = saves you money, helps the environment, helps your health, makes you feel better, it’s so easy to do and it costs less than $50.00; Save money and the Earth and be clean at the same time! Add Bathroom Bidet Sprayers to all your bathrooms. I think Dr. Oz on Oprah said it best: “if you had pee or poop on your hand, you wouldn’t wipe it off with paper, would you? You’d wash it off” Available at http://www.bathroomsprayers.com with these you won’t even need toilet paper any more, just a towel to dry off! Don’t worry, you can still leave some out for guests and can even make it the soft stuff without felling guilty. It’s cheap and can be installed without a plumber; and runs off the same water line to your toilet. You’ll probably pay for it in a few months of toilet paper savings. And after using one of these you won’t know how you lasted all those years with wadded up handfuls of toilet paper. As for water use a drought is always a concern and must be dealt far exceed the water use of household users and in the case of toilet paper manufacture it is huge. The pollution and significant power use from that manufacturing process also contributes to global warming so switching to a hand bidet sprayer and lowering your toilet paper use is very green in multiple ways. Blog; THE BUTT OF TOO MANY JOKES;http://jeff9.livejournal.com/1603.html
I read your comment on the product you recommend, but, (no pun intended), how do you keep it from splashing on you your hand? or how do you know if your clean down there? Don’t you still have to dry off? Do you have to keep a separate towel for each person to dry off with because I’m not using a towel someone else used on their bottom? Maybe if you lived by yourself and you have no friends and no visitors, yeah why not.
You have the monopoly on useful informationaren’t monpoolies illegal?