[Greenbuilding] Heat from dryers

[Paul Eldridge]

Our two person household averages a little over two loads of laundry per 
week and although green it may not be, I use our gas tumble dryer.  Our 
propane consumption works out to be about 50 litres a year which doesn't 
strike me as overly excessive, all things considered.  What does bother 
me is the amount of conditioned air that's exhausted from our home 
during the heating season which in our part of the world spans roughly 
eight months -- reportedly, in the range of some sixty litres per second 
or 200,000 litres per dryer load.

If they should become available in Canada at some future date, I'll 
happily replace our vented model with a Bosch heat pump tumble dryer.

See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scNlVoMrRzk

Cheers,
Paul

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> Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 18:36:45 -0400
> From: Jason Holstine<jason at amicusgreen.com>
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> Since the topic has been discussed before about capturing clothes dryer
> exhaust, thought it would be interesting to share this email I received: