"Lou" > wrote in message
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>
> "Vic Smith" > wrote in message
> ...
>> On Thu, 14 May 2009 14:30:28 GMT, "brooklyn1"
>> > wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
>
Absolutely true... finally someone with a functioning brain... a very rare
commodity these days, obviously.