Comments on: Electric hand dryers are tops. http://waldo.jaquith.org/blog/2007/08/hand-drying/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:29:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: james http://waldo.jaquith.org/blog/2007/08/hand-drying/#comment-18109 james Sat, 25 Aug 2007 00:15:32 +0000 http://waldo.jaquith.org/blog/2007/08/hand-drying/#comment-18109 what about <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penis_panic#Sudan" rel="nofollow">Penis-melting Zionist cyborg combs</a>? what about Penis-melting Zionist cyborg combs?

]]> By: Jack http://waldo.jaquith.org/blog/2007/08/hand-drying/#comment-18095 Jack Fri, 24 Aug 2007 13:47:20 +0000 http://waldo.jaquith.org/blog/2007/08/hand-drying/#comment-18095 I'm with Bubby. Electric hand dryers are useless crap. I’m with Bubby. Electric hand dryers are useless crap.

]]> By: Waldo Jaquith http://waldo.jaquith.org/blog/2007/08/hand-drying/#comment-18090 Waldo Jaquith Fri, 24 Aug 2007 04:24:32 +0000 http://waldo.jaquith.org/blog/2007/08/hand-drying/#comment-18090 It may not matter whether <em>I</em> use the hand dryer or paper towels, but it does matter whether 300 million people use one or the other collectively. It may not matter whether I use the hand dryer or paper towels, but it does matter whether 300 million people use one or the other collectively.

]]> By: zen http://waldo.jaquith.org/blog/2007/08/hand-drying/#comment-18084 zen Thu, 23 Aug 2007 20:55:33 +0000 http://waldo.jaquith.org/blog/2007/08/hand-drying/#comment-18084 I've noticed that the new interstate rest stop on 64 west just prior to Richmond has the loudest blow dryers I've ever encountered. Seriously they sound like jet engines. I was going to submit a comment in the box provided, but of course they were not stocked. I’ve noticed that the new interstate rest stop on 64 west just prior to Richmond has the loudest blow dryers I’ve ever encountered. Seriously they sound like jet engines. I was going to submit a comment in the box provided, but of course they were not stocked.

]]> By: Bubby http://waldo.jaquith.org/blog/2007/08/hand-drying/#comment-18081 Bubby Thu, 23 Aug 2007 13:51:28 +0000 http://waldo.jaquith.org/blog/2007/08/hand-drying/#comment-18081 Uh huh, now what I'd like to see is a study determining how many people just give up on the damn things and wipe their hands on their pants. Uh huh, now what I’d like to see is a study determining how many people just give up on the damn things and wipe their hands on their pants.

]]> By: TheGreenMiles http://waldo.jaquith.org/blog/2007/08/hand-drying/#comment-18080 TheGreenMiles Thu, 23 Aug 2007 13:49:42 +0000 http://waldo.jaquith.org/blog/2007/08/hand-drying/#comment-18080 I've gotten <a href="http://thegreenmiles.blogspot.com/2007/07/ask-green-miles-paper-towel-or-hand.html" rel="nofollow">asked this before</a>, and I tend to agree with Grist's <a href="http://www.grist.org/advice/ask/2003/03/27/umbra-towels/" rel="nofollow">"Ask Umbra"</a>: <i>[I]t doesn't matter very much whether you use the blow dryer or the paper towel. The impact of how you dry your hands is so small that you'd be far better off spending your time and energy on more important issues, and those where the environmental payoff is clearer -- such as converting the lighting in all those public restrooms to energy-efficient light fixtures (or convincing the powers that be to do the converting).</i> I’ve gotten asked this before, and I tend to agree with Grist’s “Ask Umbra”:

[I]t doesn’t matter very much whether you use the blow dryer or the paper towel. The impact of how you dry your hands is so small that you’d be far better off spending your time and energy on more important issues, and those where the environmental payoff is clearer — such as converting the lighting in all those public restrooms to energy-efficient light fixtures (or convincing the powers that be to do the converting).

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