[Greenbuilding] Laundry day on the GB List (was Re: ENERGY STAR Clothes Dryers Program Launch)

[Richard Garbary]

For at least 10 years, no dryer. Out of the front loader and onto
three drying racks (I call them trickle dryers) in the spare room.
Crack open a window in the summer time and everything is dry within 24
hours. Shirts and blouses on hangers. No ironing necessary. This
Whirlpool dryer
(http://www.sears.ca/product/whirlpool-67-cu-ft-electric-dryer-white/626-000153197-YWED9050XW)
 is rated at 5,400 watts. Just to evaporate water.



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On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 10:48 AM, RT <archilogic at yahoo.ca> wrote:
> Looking at the original subject heading of this thread again, I am reminded
> of a comment made by Richard (?)( the fellow in NYC who was plugging his new
> book here recently), labeling something a "false dilemma".
>
> Here we are in one of the hottest, driest summers in decades (in SE ON
> anyway), in an era when we've %@$#-ed things up so badly as a result of
> profligate consumption (the two being no un-related I suspect) and the US
> officialdumb (sic) is only beginning to think about energy- efficient
> clothes dryers.
>
> In many parts of the non-First World (and even here in the First World)
> people hang their laundry outside to dry year-round-- here in MooseLand,
> even when it's so cold out that the wet laundry freezes solid as a board.
>
> I'm one of nut-bar geezers who think that every dwelling benefits from
> having an attached sun-space on the equator-facing side of the house , no
> matter how small.
>
> And experience tells me that in addition to behaving as a solar furnace for
> the attached dwelling, that sun-space also does double-duty as a very good
> passive clothes dryer, without the issues that may be associated with
> outdoor clotheslines in  rascally bird-plopping, tick-infested, atmospheric
> pollution fallout areas.
>
> A random thought: It would be relatively cheap and easy to add a passive
> solar clothes dryer to any dwelling, even if it's just one that's as deep as
> the distance from the outside edge of the roof overhang back to the wall
> surface.
>
> There is no shortage of high embodied-energy tempered glass in the
> waste-stream which has limited potential for high-grade uses via recycling
> (ie typically broken up for construction aggregate if at all) that could be
> used for the purpose. The necessary support framing would be minimal and the
> project is certainly within the realm of skills of the average home
> handy-person.
>
> About the only real challenge is devising a pulley system that would allow
> the laundry person to stay in one spot (perhaps at a doorway or window or a
> new opening created for the purpose) to hang the wet laundry and gather in
> the dry.
>
> Okay, okay. There is another challenge.
>
> Convincing The Boss of the HouseHold that it can be done in an
> aesthetically-pleasing manner.
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> Rob Tom                                 AOD257
> Kanata, Ontario, Canada
>
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