On Fri, 15 May 2009 09:56:30 -0400, "Elmo P. Shagnasty"
> wrote:

>In article >,
> "Nancy Young" > wrote:
>
>> I can't really get behind this dishwasher as home heating device
>> unless you live in a one room studio.
>
>The size of the house has nothing to do with it. The fact remains: if
>you need to add heat to the home to make it comfortable for living, then
>the heat from the dishwasher's dry cycle will ultimately be sent into
>the inside of the home itself. That is heat that the furnace does NOT
>have to supply.
>
>In a studio apartment, it may be a significant percentage of the total
>heat needed to raise the inside temperature of the apartment. In a
>large house, it may be a very small percentage of the total heat needed.
>Regardless, it is heat and it will have an effect--in other words, it
>won't go to waste.
>
>However, when you're using the A/C in summer, the added heat load of the
>dry cycle is heat that the A/C must work HARDER at to remove from the
>inside of the house--again, regardless of whether it's a studio
>apartment or a large house.


But the added humidity from the dry cycle is a deffinate bonus