Interesting, but can we learn to live with fewer dishes?
Harry
On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Harry Veeder <hveeder...@gmail.com> wrote:
> http://ca.shine.yahoo.com/which-is-better--dishwasher-or-washing-dishes-by-hand-.html
>
> <<A study out of the University of Bonn in Germany, reported by Pablo
> Päster in the May/June issue of EatingWell Magazine, found that
> washing a load of dishes (12 place settings) by hand uses on average
> 27 gallons of water and 2.5 kilowatt-hours of energy to heat the
> water-equivalent to running a hair dryer for 2 1/2 hours. (Not to
> mention the parental energy it takes to get your kid to wash all those
> dishes in the first place.)
> By comparison, an energy-efficient dishwasher uses about 4 gallons of
> water and 1 kWh of energy per load. (And over the course of a year,
> using the dishwasher saves more than 400 hours of labor!) Researchers
> also found that dishwashers cleaned better, as half of the
> hand-washers failed to reach an "acceptable level" of cleanliness. >>
>
> harry
>
