Line Drying Clothes to save money

How to line dry your clothes in the sunshine instead of the dryer and save money on electricity. A typical clothes dryer uses 4000 Watts of power when on. Multiply that by the number of hours to figure how much electricity that is. Running a typical dryer for one hour uses 4 kilowatt hours of energy, running it for 30 minutes uses 2 kilowatt hours. In our eight-person house, we estimate we're saving about 12 hours per month of running a dryer, or about 48 kilowatt hours.

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