Hair dryers and energy::?
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That is 45 kWh a year. It depends on how you look at it if it is a lot or not.
That amount of power usage in compact florsent lighting would burn a 14 watt blub (same as a 60 watt light) for 3,259 hours or 9 hours a day. Or 4 of these lights for 814 hours yearly.
So you could light your house for a year or you could run a hair dryer for 5 minutes a day.
Keep in mind that I used a 1500 watt hair dryer and 5 minutes in the math above. But most women use 1850 watt hair dryers and run them 15 minutes a day. So you could light three homes year round for what one person uses every morning.
Up to you .. What do you think?
A typical hairdryer draws 1500 W. If you use it for 5 minutes, that's .125 kWhr. So in a week, that's .875 kWhr, about $.13 if you pay $.15 per kWhr.
Compare that to a 12 Watt compact florescent lightbulb that's on for 3 hours a day. In a day, it uses .036 kWhr, or in a week, .252 kWhr.
All in all, using a hair dryer for 5 minutes a day won't make you go broke, but it uses a lot of electricity compared to efficient appliances around the house. It's saving grace is that you only use it 5 minutes a day.
A 1000 watt hair dryer will cost about seven cents per hour to run. Running it for five minutes costs about a half a cent.
If you've got that kind of money, go for it.
I stopped using mine because it bad for my hair and bad for the environment.
I say bad for the environment because if you look at it and count all the people that insist on blow drying their hair for even 5 minutes everyday, it adds up to a lot of energy consumption which I find is pretty useless waste of energy.
One can help with an energy crisis and the environment simply by taking small steps like not using a hair dryer :D
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