"Vic Smith" > wrote in message
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> On Thu, 14 May 2009 14:30:28 GMT, "brooklyn1"
> > wrote:
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> Do what you want, but don't think electrically drying dishes has no
> cost. Unless you can scientifically prove it.
>
I don't see anyone saying it has no cost. The point is that air drying the
dishes isn't necessarily cost free either. Neither is using a towel to dry
them - the water is absorbed by the towel, which becomes damp. You hang the
towel up when you're done, and that water evaporates. And again, it takes a
certain amount of heat to evaporate a given quantity of water, and if it's
during the heating season, that heat is coming from the furnace. If you
live in a climate where you don't need to run the furnace, then that's not a
consideration. I don't know how much water has to be evaporated to dry a
load of dishes, but it doesn't look like it would be much, and the amount of
electricity used is correspondingly small - I doubt if anyone would notice a
change in their electricity bill one way or the other.