Joseph Meehan wrote:
Ralph D. wrote:
I am wondering about the actual amount of increase in efficiency
from
a gas dryer of the recent and not so recent (5 year ago and 17 year
ago as opposed to what is on the display floor today). For a family
doing an average of three or more loads a day is there much
reduction
in the gas used now vs an older dryer, and just how much?



The real savings is to use it less. A dryer is on of the worst
applicances energy wise in the winter. You are taking warm air from
your home, heating it more and drying your clothes with it and pumping
it outside. All the air from your home that your dreyer pumps out
through the vent must be replaced and it is replaced by cold dry air
from outside leaking in. So running the dreyer makes your home furnace
work more too. It's a double wammy. If you REALLY want to improve
energy efficency, consider on of the heat reclimation devices for the
dryer exhaust. But they have problems with lint, so you can't win.
Mark