Jim Redelfs wrote:

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Hanging-out ONE load of laundry on a clothes line, rather than use a dryer,
will save more energy than is used by the idle running of a computer in its
lifetime.

Not likely. A computer running 24/7 will use $100-$200 per year of
electricity. If one load of wash cost that much to dry, we'd have
heard about it.

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