{"id":13,"date":"2006-07-02T19:17:37","date_gmt":"2006-07-02T19:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.olino.org\/us\/?p=13"},"modified":"2008-04-14T19:19:09","modified_gmt":"2008-04-14T19:19:09","slug":"saving-300-kwh-annually-using-a-rotary-clothes-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olino.org\/blog\/us\/articles\/2006\/07\/02\/saving-300-kwh-annually-using-a-rotary-clothes-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Saving 300 kWh annually using a rotary clothes line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An example how to save a lot of energy with a small investment&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.olino.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/articles\/droogmolen_ingebruik_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Droogmolen\" \/><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Since my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.olino.org\/us\/articles\/2006\/06\/29\/1500-watt-with-solar-panels\" target=\"_self\">1500W of solar panels<\/a> I have been looking how to reduce my energy consumption. It makes a lot more sense\u00a0money wise\u00a0to save on\u00a0energy\u00a0consumption compared to generating this same amount of energy yourself. The\u00a0rotary clothes line is a\u00a0beautiful\u00a0example how to use the energy of the sun very efficient and save on your own energy consumption by reducing the usage of an electric clothes dryer (now called dryer)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.olino.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/articles\/droogmolen_ingebruik.jpg\" alt=\"Droogmolen in gebruik\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>A\u00a0rotary clothes line running on solar power.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A dryer consumes around 600 kWh \/ year for an average household (Source\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.milieucentraal.nl\">milieu centraal<\/a>\u00a0Nederlands). A good\u00a0rotary clothes line cost around 45 euro. Assume we use this\u00a0rotary clothes line for 50% of the time a year (summer), and for the other 50% of the year we keep using the dryer (winter). That would mean we could save, using an electricity price of\u00a0\u20ac\u00a00,20 \/ kWh (June 2006, Netherlands), around\u00a0\u00a0\u20ac\u00a060,- a year. So the\u00a0rotary clothes line will pay itself back in 3\/4 year. If you don&#8217;t need the\u00a0rotary clothes line anymore you can collapse it so it does not take any space anymore in your yard&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.olino.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/articles\/droogmolen_ingeklapt.jpg\" alt=\"Droogmolen in gebruik\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Collapsed\u00a0rotary clothes line<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Comparison<\/h3>\n<p>Let compare the savings of the\u00a0rotary clothes line with the energy production of the solar panels. The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.olino.org\/us\/articles\/2006\/06\/29\/1500-watt-with-solar-panels\" target=\"_self\">12 solar panels<\/a>\u00a0(including the inverter, monitoring unit, cables, mounting equipment, extra power group) cost around\u00a0\u20ac7000. These solar panels provide\u00a0annually\u00a0around 1350 kWh. Let compare the two now in the table below.<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>Device<\/th>\n<th>Investment<\/th>\n<th>Yield \/ Savings<\/th>\n<th>Cost \/ kWh<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>rotary clothes line<\/td>\n<td>\u20ac\u00a045,-<\/td>\n<td>300 kWh<\/td>\n<td>\u20ac\u00a00,15<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Solar panels (1500W)<\/td>\n<td>\u20ac\u00a07000,-<\/td>\n<td>1350 kWh<\/td>\n<td>\u20ac\u00a05,19<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3><strong>Conclusion<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Investments on energy savings can have a short\u00a0pay back\u00a0period. With small investments you can get big savings in energy. See also the article\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.olino.org\/us\/articles\/2006\/06\/25\/earning-money-with-energy-saving\" target=\"_self\">Earning money with energy saving<\/a>. Even so, solar panels with their longer pay back period are a good\u00a0investment. Watch for an article soon on this site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An example how to save a lot of energy with a small investment&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olino.org\/blog\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olino.org\/blog\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olino.org\/blog\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olino.org\/blog\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olino.org\/blog\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olino.org\/blog\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olino.org\/blog\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olino.org\/blog\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olino.org\/blog\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}