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It uses a heat pump, so it’s certainly much more efficient than a dryer that uses gas or resistive heating element. Like, by a lot.

That being said, energy prices in the US are a lot lower, so the incentive to lower energy usage isn’t there.



Not all of the US, of course. We have plenty of incentive to reduce our energy use in the Bay Area :)


Efficient dryers also use heat pumps (ours does).




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