[GBlist] Re: energy efficient appliances.

["Marilyn" <timex@dsl.ca>]

Quoth deumling@socrates.Berkeley.ED at 13:44 on Tuesday, March 26, 2002:

> 
> > it's worth mentioning that the European models generally have smaller
> > tubs. We have a Maytag Neptune front-loader. Around here a smaller tub
> > would mean more loads, higher energy use.
> 
> Around *here* that wouldn't necessarily be the case.  I think it is a lot
> like having a bigger fridge or a bigger house or a bigger anything.  We
> seem to find ways to fill whatever is available.

Not only that, but as I said in a prior post, with the horizontal axis, you 
can stuff it really full, and it still cleans the clothes because of the way 
the water moves - unlike a vertical axis, where you have to "pack lightly" 
to give the agitator room to move around and move your clothes through 
the water without tearing them.

marilyn
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