http://transitionculture.org/2006/02/14/kicking-our-fossil-fuel-addiction-one-mans-efforts-to-live-sustainably/ An Evolving Exploration into the Head, Heart and Hands of Energy Descent Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:35:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://transitionculture.org/2006/02/14/kicking-our-fossil-fuel-addiction-one-mans-efforts-to-live-sustainably/comment-page-1/#comment-181 Steven Woeste Fri, 17 Feb 2006 09:28:25 +0000 http://transitionculture.org/?p=232#comment-181 If you want to try to get even more energy savings for your washer, try using sunlight to heat the water outside, then bringing the hot water in by hand to pour into the washer. That way you use neither electricity nor gas. I do this by setting out 3, 5-gallon black-plastic bags of water the night before the washing is done, so on a sunny day, the water is hot in time to do the laundry. Assuming sunny weather, it works fine from mid-spring through early autumn. If you want to try to get even more energy savings for your washer, try using sunlight to heat the water outside, then bringing the hot water in by hand to pour into the washer. That way you use neither electricity nor gas. I do this by setting out 3, 5-gallon black-plastic bags of water the night before the washing is done, so on a sunny day, the water is hot in time to do the laundry. Assuming sunny weather, it works fine from mid-spring through early autumn.

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