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In winter the humidified air exhausted within the confines of a
home would condense on cool surfaces and cause considerable damage
to the interior of the home.  The most practicle way of reducing
energy with respect to dryers is for manufacterers to use the latest
electric motor technology, insulation, and microelectronic sensor tech.
More heat is wasted by having the dryer run longer than necessary
(the clothes are dry but the dryer keeps on running) than any other
factor in this particular equation.

On Fri, 12 Mar 1993 Jeffrey=Young%SQA%Banyan@HIPPO.BANYAN.COM wrote:

> Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1993 01:06:56 EST
> From:Jeffrey=Young%SQA%Banyan@HIPPO.BANYAN.COM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ENVBEH-L <ENVBEH-L@polyvm.bitnet>
> Subject: Recycling of dryer heat
>
> At present whenever a user does a load of laundry an electric or gas dryer
> expells humidified heated air to the outside, pulling household air in to
> replace the vented exhaust.
>
> I realize there are other methods of dying clothes that are less resource
> intensive, but for the the present the clothes dryer is an excepted fixture in
> America.
>
> Does anyone have a suggestion to reclaim some of this heat and humidity to the
> back inside of the home while not getting the "lint" from the dryer in the
> process?  I know here in the Northeast home owners spend hundreds of dollars a
> month to heat and humidify homes through the winter months.  It seems an awful
> waste to be just throwing this energy outside and then heating and humidifying
> more air to make the inside of our homes comfortable.
>
> Thanks,
> jeff young (jyoung@banyan.com)                  Westboro, MA