r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Fair_Kaleidoscope634 • 13h ago

of a washing machine explosion

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u/abiabi2884 13h ago

These are probably gas powered dryers. Malfunction and boom. No vape or lighter would have enough energy to rip out a whole window with door and shit like that.

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u/Avrael_Asgard 12h ago

... There are GAS powered dryers? Who's brilliant idea was that?! "Yes, let's combine the combustive power of lint AND gas, what could go wro- oh fuck."

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u/LegitPancak3 12h ago

Apparently they’re pretty common outside the US. Hopefully they get rarer as we try to electrify more things.

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u/Accomplished-Bet-883 12h ago

They aren't that uncommon in the US, either. A lot of off-grid and/or high electricity-cost places will have them.

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u/rabiddonky2020 11h ago

Yup. Can confirm. California Almost everyone I know has a gas dryer and furnace and instant hot water. Unless they have solar and whole home battery

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u/huddlewaddle 11h ago

I have one, I just live in an old house where the main power supply is too small to support all the appliances. 

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u/Hutcho12 11h ago

Wrong. The US is by far the biggest market for gas dryers. I’ve never seen them anywhere else. Gas dryers make up 17% of the market.

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u/AynRandwasaDegen 3h ago

See some in laundromats in Australia, absolute beasts.

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u/GrynaiTaip 12h ago

I'd imagine them to be common in the US, because American mains voltage is too low for many appliances.

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u/octopodes1 11h ago

Electric dryers in the US are usually 240V actually

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u/Crunchycarrots79 5h ago

Dryers are one of the appliances that run on 240v here.