Some people have preferences whenever it comes to major appliances and power tools.
For instance, our neighbor uses an electric lawn trimmer with a 100 foot long extension cable. Although his lawn system is more environmentally friendly than mine, I like the power and strength of using the gasoline engine on our sodmower. I don’t have to worry about accidentally running over an extension cord if I don’t notice it in the grass, and I can get the chore done fairly hastily compared to our neighbor. If I could find an electric lawn mower with a battery that gives it the same sort of torque as a gas motor, I would entirely switch in a heartbeat. I want to use tools that are great and do the function they’re designed for. The high efficiency washers and dryers have gotten worse at cleaning and drying laundry, bypassing some basic controls like water level and spin speed for a slew of auto settings that aren’t helpful or at all needed. Portable air conditionings are another example of a machine that doesn’t effectively handle the demands that motivated engineers to create them in the first location. They’re intended to be simple to use cooling systems that can go into locations where windows cooling systems, thru-wall units, and ductless mini splits are either not a feasible option or not economically feasible. But since a portable air conditioning has it’s hot air compressor within the same enclosure as the cold evaporator coil, the machine must keep recycling indoor air to keep the compressor from overheating. That’s right, the same air that your machine just spent energy cooling must then be recycled back into the machine to cool down those same internal components. That doesn’t exactly sound like an energy efficient cooling plan does it? Mine wasn’t at all. I returned it for a window unit.
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