Washington Post Wants You To Use Cold Water To Save The Planet
The interesting part is that “reporter” Allyson Chiu fails to mention whether she’s fully switched from not using hot water, nor is it mentioned whether the WP has turned off hot water at their office
Why you should embrace using cold water, almost all the time
You may not be giving a second thought to setting your washing machine on the hot cycle, cranking your showers to a steamy temperature or scrubbing your dirty dishes under a stream of scalding water.
No, I really don’t. I actually do most of the laundry in cold water, and use the appropriate detergent. Though, if I am doing a big load of whites I might do it in hot. I don’t mind saving some energy, and making sure I have hot water for other things. But, not to “reduce emissions.”
If you did, you’d find that you probably don’t need to use so much hot water — and that you could be saving energy and cutting your utility bills. Water heating is responsible for more than 10 percent of both annual residential energy use and consumer utility costs, the biggest share after air conditioning and heating, according to the Energy Department. An American household uses an average of 64 gallons of hot water a day — close to the amount needed to fill an average bathtub — by doing laundry, showering, washing the dishes and running kitchen and bathroom faucets. (snip)
By washing four out of five loads of laundry in cold water, you could cut 864 pounds of CO2 emissions in a year, an amount equivalent to planting 0.37 acres of U.S. forest, according to the American Cleaning Institute.
Piss off. Mind your own business.
Showering accounts for roughly 17 percent of the water Americans use in their homes, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Your steamy showers also consume energy: Nearly half of a home’s hot water is used for bathing. A cold shower uses less energy than a hot one.
Why do these people feel the need to nag? Is Allyson doing this?
You should also rethink washing your hands with hot or warm water for the same reason, she added.
Washing up with cooler water could also have additional benefits for your skin, according to dermatologists.
Yet, doctors recommend you wash with hot water. Anyhow, this is the kind of “news” you get these days, with “reporters” who never leave the office (or their apartments), never cultivate leads, never ask tough questions of politicians and bureaucrats.
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