Dishwasher = less energy than handwashing?

Researchers at Bonn University have tested and calculated that washing your dishes by hand uses more energy and water than todays modern automatic dishwashers? That the dishwasher uses 3 to 4 times less water than handwashing the same amount of dishes?

Their extensive testing concludes that “There is no significant reason not to encourage dishwasher ownership on the grounds of water and energy use or performance.” Amazing stuff indeed?

What planet is Bonn University on anyway if it thinks any right minded person would accept their findings? Only those in the whitegoods industry no doubt will welcome such findings with open arms and proliferate this hogwash purely on commercial grounds, of course 😉

Loads of dishwashers will hit the market and we will all capitalise as a result no doubt. Indeed the UK market is wide open to this type of propaganda as under 20{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} of households at present own an automatic dishwasher. The market is wide open to the influx of the new generation AAA rated appliances.

Now I’m no ‘tree hugger’ but I have long argued against such bull droppings and misrepresentations. Energy efficient machines and rating labels are very applaudable indeed. But most are based on test carried out by men in white coats that proliferate (and forgive my scientific terminology here 😉 ) greywater tosh!

I leave you with this question: How can a dishwasher with (lets say) 8 full place setting load, that takes over 150 minutes to complete a cycle, use less energy than the same load done in a sink by hand? …..COME ON? PULL THE OTHER ONE FRITZ?:rolls:

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