Lou wrote:
> "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.

I use the water heater feature of my dishwasher and clothes washer so
that I can set my domestic water at 120 instead of 150. That saves much
more money than not using electricity to dry the dishes.

YMMV

Matthew

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