On Thu, 14 May 2009 08:37:23 -0400, "Nancy Young"
> wrote:

>Elmo P. Shagnasty wrote:
>> In article >,
>> "Nancy Young" > wrote:
>>
>>>> The water doesn't care what generated the heat. During the heating
>>>> season, that heat is going to come either from the dishwasher
>>>> heating element or from the furnace, but either way you're going to
>>>> pay for the heat. It may be marginally cheaper to use the furnace,
>>>> if you have an up to date high efficiency furnace, but not enough
>>>> to notice.
>>>
>>> ? The dishes dry themselves whether I have the furnace running
>>> or not.
>>
>> The furnace heats the house. The heat in the house is used to
>> evaporate the water.
>
>The fact that the water the dishes were washed in is super hot
>makes it just evaporate. This is why they also dry themselves in
>the summer when the heat isn't on ... or the A/C.
>
>Geez, when I take my dishes out of the cabinets on that same
>wall in the winter, they are freezing cold because I didn't think
>to have them replace the insulation when I replaced the kitchen.
>If the heat isn't forcing itself into my kitchen cabinets, I sincerely
>doubt it's pushing past the hot air leaking from the dishwasher
>to dry them.
>
>Regardless, I don't see the worth to using the electric heating
>coil in my dishwasher to gain warmth in the house, but to each
>their own.
>
Don't you just love wasting your breath with students who probably
haven't seen a dishwasher since they left home?


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