[Greenbuilding] Question about appliances

[Robert Waldrop]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bobbi Chukran" <bobbi at bobbichukran.com>
> And speaking of that, we bought a new freezer 
> not long ago from
> Sears.  They didn't have any Energy Star models 
> that were
> self-defrosting.  The salesperson said that we'd 
> spend energy
> defrosting the things and it would all even out. 
> I felt bad about
> not buying an ES freezer, but at the time we had 
> no choice.

If this means you bought a manual defrost freezer, 
then you are ahead energy-wise.  Automatic 
defrosting freezers use electrical power to melt 
the ice, where with a manual defrost you simply 
turn it off.  Automatic defrosting freezers also 
harm the quality of the food stored therein.
>
> BTW, our house does have natural gas for the 
> range, but not for the
> dryer.  We were wondering about the economics of 
> adding a gas hook-up
> so we could get a gas (and not electric) dryer. 
> Would that make
> sense?

For drying your clothes, the environment would be 
better off if you hang your clothes out to dry on 
a clothes line.  That's what we do.  If it is 
rainy, I have some racks and we hang the clothes 
indoors.
>
Bob Waldrop, OKC