006 = Squaring Shirts and Testing Toasters
A Problem Squared
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How Much Energy Does a Clothes Dryer Take?
Goldstein: How much energy could I be harnessing from these clothes? Well harnessing is not a bad way to look at it because some people have tried to come up with devices that will collect static energy. At the end of an hour, you've used about 10 million joules. That's the amount of energy going into your clothes dryer. If you spell that differently, that would be treasure.
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