Free heat

[telestratosonic]

On cold mornings, I go into the kitchen. open the dishwasher (which ran overnight) and stand close by. Ahhh! Steamy.

Gets the humidity up in bone-dry Kelowna as well!

 

[Flaneur]

Heh, if I tried that now, the clothes would come back into the house, frozen stiff, only to melt and be as sodden as they were going outside

I remember snapping a bed sheet in half, trying to take it off a frozen washing line, back in the '80s.

 

[JL_LI]

I started two threads about humidification and heat recovery over the weekend. Thanks to everyone who posted, agreeing with me or not. There's one thing I didn't think about and that's regional differences. I wouldn't be boiling water or venting a dryer indoors any time of year in Hawaii and I certainly don't do it in NY when it's warm outside. Regional and climatic differences are important. Forget about everything I said if you live someplace where you can heat your home with a heat pump. That may be possible a hundred years from now where I live, but the beaches will be a few yards south of the Long Island Expressway. I'm glad I won't be here to see that.

 

[Greggorios]

Plus, nothing like the feeling of fresh laundry that was dried outside in the sun.

Thanks, you brought back a wonderful memory from childhood of my mother and drying clothes in the backyard. They always smelled so great, just like...home.

 

[Tonetele]

I got solar panels and a great rate, I ended up with credits to my power provider. So, let's use Nature.