By Keith Flamer If your home has a gas clothes dryer, you’re in the minority. Electric models dominate the category, with an 81 percent market share, according to OpenBrand, a market research ...

Nonetheless, our decades of research and testing show that gas dryers perform just as well. Our comprehensive ratings cover both types of full-sized dryers, as well as compacts. Electric clothes ...

Clothes dryers tumble and emit heat for as ... Per unit, electric dryers consume about 782 kilowatt hours each year while gas dryers use about 2.28 million Btu a year, according to DOE data.

For the dryer, you need either gas or — in the US — a special 220 ... That causes water in the clothes to evaporate into the air. The heat pump dryer then uses a second loop to cool the ...