hydronic clothes dryer debut

geno54

Out here on the east end of Long Island they call it "Visual Pollution". Things like clothes lines, swing sets etc.

hot_rod

I wonder

www.dryermiser.com

hot rod

BC_5

I call B******t

Another case of marketing run amok. A hydronic clothes dryer sounds like a great concept if you could power it with a heat pump, high efficiency boiler, etc. But all they are doing is replacing one electric heating element with another!

I guess I buy the claim that it is safer without the high temp heating element in the airstream. However, the efficiency claims are hard to believe. Electric heat is electric heat.

Now give me a hydronic dryer I can power with a mod/con and I'll be interested.

Derheatmeister

Dryer Rack/ Clothes line in the sun/Wind = NO ,or not many moving parts + Free energy.Heatmeister.

Bob Gagnon plumbing and heating

I agree Derheatmeister

I started hanging out my clothes this past summer and I can't believe how easy it is, and it only cost $10, and the clothes smell fresh instead of like gas fumes. If everyone just hung out their clothes think of how much energy we could save. A barrel of oil just hit $103, I think we will see $200 a barrell a lot quicker than it took to get to $100 a barrel. Thanks, Bob Gagnon

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Larry Weingarten

I have a friend...

... in Colorado who dries clothes in winter in his sunspace. The house needs the humidity and the clothes don't get snowed on ;~) It low tech and works well.

Yours, Larry

Derheatmeister

Me in Colorado too, that's exactly what i do.

Keith_8

Convert

After picking myself up off the floor with $200 + a month electric bills I decided enough was enough.

Sure, not much we can do about the KW cost going up and up but we can reduce our consumption. Hanging cloths in the basement all winter long, adds humidity to the house and for every load I hang up it reduces our electric bill by at least 1$.

Not leaving the outside lights on, close the refrigerator door and stop gazing in there like a magic show is about to happen, turn off the TV and lights when you leave a room, make the kids aware that for every $ we send the electric and the oil company is a $ less we have to spend on activities we enjoy all goes a long way towards conservation.

Any of you guy's have a wife who likes to converse with her girlfriend with the front door wide open? I do, and it drives me insane. The waves of heat are rolling out the front door, the boiler clicks on and they keep chatting away. It's lessened @ $3.00 + per gallon. But what happens when I'm not around

Point is.... lets all do our part to the best of our ability.

Keith

Bob Gagnon plumbing and heating

Another benefit

of drying your clothes is that they last longer. All that lint in you dryer filter is your clothes wearing out, getting beat up from the dryer. I never thought about the humidity thing, thats another good reason. Some people might say you are not saving enough money, but in addition to electricity cost, what is it going to cost to clean up the environment? If everyone just hung out their clothes think of how much energy we would save. Thanks, Bob Gagnon

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D107

Could a drier work with hydro-air off a separate heating zone?

Maybe wallies would have to invent this, but a system that blew hot air evenly from all sides into the tumbler? I don't know how hot standard driers get inside, but would 180 degree water be hot enough?

David

singh

Or

you could use one of these.


http://www.cetsolar.com/extraheat.htm


PLEASE NOTE !! NOT FOR GAS DRYERS !!

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Wayco Wayne_2

The city of Rockville, MD

which is nearby to me, has an ordinance against hanging your clothes outside to dry. It is considered unsightly. Unbelievable! There is an energy conscious fellow running for city counsel who is railing against this law among others. Some nice folks I know, that live inside the city limits just put up a tall fence so they can dry their clothes outside without being seen. LOL. It's a crazy mixed up world. WW

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Derheatmeister

There is a law against Restricting the access to alternative energy, Which Clothes lines fall into that category. So If one wants to Hang Bra's in a Million dollar neighborhood they can.

Bob Gagnon plumbing and heating

Do yo have any info on

That law Derheatmeister? Can you imagine being so pompous that you would think a swing set or clothes line was ugly? Clothes drying in the breeze, kids swinging on the swingset, its beautiful, like a Norman Rockwell painting.

Thanks, Bob Gagnon

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Derheatmeister

Agree, I've heard this from one of my PV friends that also teaches it at SEI in carbondale,CO .I'll ask him this week were i can find this information. Heatmeister.

singh

.

How about this story?

http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/wayoflife/02/29/redwoods.vs.solar.ap/index.html




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Derheatmeister

\"Shade Police\"

Yes, and this case is just the beginning. Maybe we will see a " shading Police" soon. But it has to be fair for everyone!Incl. the "Tree huggers" i.e. if someone is using Trees that are keeping the house cool in the Summer, and has been doing this for years and a neighbor decided that they want a solar system, then the one that was there first should have the "right of way".I think that we are all trying to do the right thing so it may be dependant on each situation.Heatmeister.

bob eck

dryer

Many new developments built in my area in last 15 - 20 years that are deed restricted as to you can not put up clothes lines in your back yard to hang and dry your clothes via the free sun. I guess this is because the people that live in these new large developments do not want unsightly clothes lines hung up to detract from their beautiful landscaped lawns. Anyway if the federal government finds out we are getting free energy from the sun the politicians will find a way to tax us on that free energy. Watch out the solar and renewable energy industry the feds are looking for you!

Derheatmeister

The air we breath next?

Bob Gagnon plumbing and heating

Shade police

In Massachusetts we have a set of voluntary laws called the solar access laws, in effect if someone has a solar system in place and a neighbor wants to build or plant trees and blocks the solar collection you have a hearing. If someone was building a huge office building that dosen't mean that they would stop it but they might have to come to an agreement and pay you. And if a neighbor planted a tree right in front of your solar panels just to be hateful they might have to take it down. I think the "who is there first" rule would apply most often. Thanks, Bob Gagnon

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scott markle_2

clothes line paradox

this 1975 essay by steve baer seems relevant to the subject.

http://taxshine.com/Clothesline.html