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On Fri, 15 May 2009 09:07:24 -0500, wrote:

>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

Not in the south in the middle of the summer. The A/C is running hard
to take the humidity out.
--
Susan N.

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