[Greenbuilding] drying clothes

[sanjay jain]

I bought up this topic in June 2010: http://listserv.repp.org/pipermail/greenbuilding_listserv.repp.org/2010-June/016099.html  - Unfortunately the dryermiser.com site is down....  

I would assume that a combination of a small heater and dehumidifier would be the simplest DIY solution. Maybe the heater could be eliminated if you can capture the heat from the dryer and dehumidifier motors.

~sanjay




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From: Steven Tjiang <steve at tjiang.org>
To: Green Building <greenbuilding at lists.bioenergylists.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 3:46 PM
Subject: Re: [Greenbuilding] drying clothes


Back to the original topic of drying clothes.  I have always thought it might be interesting to

(1) Import one of those heat-pump european dryers and modified them for use in the US.  Does anybody here have experience with converting European appliances (not necessarily a dryer) for the US?

(2) A DIY project where your take a regular electric dryer, disconnect the heating element and then duct the dryer exhaust vent through the evaporator (cool) side of an air conditioner (to extract the moisture) and duct the hot air from the condenser (hot) side of the air conditioner into the dryer intake.  Probably not as effective as one of the European units but might work.  Might even work better than a regular condensing dryer.

---- Steve (KZ6LSD)
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