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On a website once I had an argument in the comments with someone about hanging laundry to dry as compared to putting it in the laundry drying machine. He argued that hanging it to try took hardly more time and saved a lot in energy. I will grant the latter, but argued tremendously against the former. It takes me about 15 seconds to take the laundry from the washer and put it in the dryer. It takes me about 10 minutes to hang them up like this:
In other news, two thirds of my garden beds are without snow while the last third still has some. It should be all melted in the next two or three days as the weather forecast is indicating sufficient warmth.
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I always figured that the hung out to dry clothes also picked up dust and pollen. Which might be good for us when we are young and need to desensitize. But mostly, it's cleaner to not hang wet filters out into the mucky air.
The advantage of April hanging is no pollen or bugs. Our air quality here in the suburbs isn't too bad; and in my neighbourhood in particular, there is a lot of vegetation (trees, bushes) to help capture the small particles.
Heh, I was signed in to my son's Google account without knowing it when I replied.
In places where electricity is prohibitively expensive, and the sun is a natural way to dry things, it makes sense to dry them in the sun. The sun also kills bacteria (or so my mom tells me - maybe this is one of those things that's been disproven but the sun still has such a connotation to me).
Our dryer is making a terrible clanging sound when it dries for the past several months. I wish I had the luxury of sunlight to dry clothes at the moment.
Oh I was also going to add that human energy should be counted when counting energy. Using calories to hang up the clothes means you'll have to eat more food to keep the body running, so that is a cost to keep in mind.
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