Green Sexy

Magnetic refrigerators?

Can this really be? I don't quite understand how this can work but Danish researchers are working on a refrigerator prototype that runs silently and cools using magnets. Now I know there are magnets out there that can take pictures--the MRI, but those are very noisy. If you've ever had an MRI you know that you can't wear any metal around them, would that be the same in the residential home? Will grandpa be barred from visiting because of his pacemaker. I know I am being a bit facetious. I'll admit I am curious but we will have to wait until at least 2010 until we see a magnetic refrigerator prototype,  don't recycle that old energy star quite yet.

New Green Dryer

When I think if a green dryer my first thought jumps to those olive green appliances from the early '70s. I know the 70s are in but this is not the green I am talking about.  There is a Parade of Homes in Texas that is featuring green home design and no doubt those homes have green dryers in them--they are probably white or maybe even those dryers in new fashion colors you see on commercials. Of course it is so important to have a laundry room decked out in the latest fashion colors, maybe there is even a lovely shade of green. I digress, surely the laundry equipment in these homes will be of the Energy Star variety. All good. But MY new dryer is even greener and prettier than the latest colors.

For $7 I got my new dryer and... installed it myself.  I love it!  I have a clothesline now. I am all about using technology to create a greener tomorrow but sometimes new technology is not necessary. I turned to classic technology to get my clothes and linens dry.

You may have seen my post(and more to come) about the wind energy proposals for my area, well I am harvesting some wind energy for myself.  I hang my clothes they dry in the breeze, I fold them as I take them down.  That deserves a replay--I FOLD THEM AS I TAKE THEM DOWN.  This is a big deal.  I am notorious for emptying the electric drier into a basket not to be folded for a few days or so.  So I have wrinkly clothes to then deal with. So for $7 dollars I got my clothes line, the hardware to put it up and the pins to hold items in place.  In return I get crisp air dried clothing that gets folded right away and I don't use my dryer or my iron.  Sweet!  After my initial investment it is free.  Why pay for a bunch of hot air when I got it blowing all over my back yard! Free, tax-free, energy.

Oh! and here is a shout out to GE and Kenmore and their  fashionable colored washers and dryers...YOU'VE GOT NOTHING ON MY DRYER--HOW BEAUTIFUL IS THIS!?!?!'