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Drying by using fusion power from the sun is convenient only if you live in a warm climate mostly in southern Europe. And even in that case, e.g. Cyprus where
by kyriakos 5y ago
Drying by using fusion power from the sun is convenient only if you live in a warm climate mostly in southern Europe.
And even in that case, e.g. Cyprus where we enjoy 320+ sunny days a year there comes a time around January/February that it can take up to 2 days for clothes to dry.
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- Someone 5y agoI think air humidity has more to do with it than temperature. Clothes certainly can easily dry overnight inside a house at around 18 degrees Celsius.
- stavros 5y agoYou don't dry your clothes inside in the winter?
- kyriakos 5y agoHumidity from drying clothes is not exactly good for you or your home. That also assumes heating to dry them in the first place i.e. you need to increase consumption to account for the extra cooling from the drying clothes, turns out you may as well use a dryer and get the job done (at least for the cold months). For comparison though in the summer, drying a washer load takes around 2 hours during the day and maybe 4-5 during the night.
- stavros 5y agoTrue for the summer, we dry them inside in the winter and it does get a bit humid, but it doesn't really get much colder from drying the clothes. The humidity isn't great, though.
- ginko 5y ago>That also assumes heating to dry them in the first place You don't need heating either. I dry my bedsheets in a room with clotheslines in the roof of my apartment building. That has like 5-10C right now and they dry just fine. Also humid air is the least thing I'd worry about in Winter.
- ginko 5y agoYou don't need sunlight for drying clothes. They dry just fine indoors during the Norwegian winter here. Does that take more than 24 hours? Sure, but that's no problem if you plan a bit ahead.
- cpach 5y agoI haven’t been to Cyprus but I can imagine that during the winter they might actually have a lower indoors temperature than we in the Nordics have. In warm countries, buildings tend to have far worse insulation than we have.
- kyriakos 5y agoInsulation of course works both for cold and heat but old buildings definitely have very bad insulation, new ones build the past 10 years have more stricter standards. Generally everything is built for high temperatures and with cooling in mind so many buildings prioritize airconditioning over efficient centralized heating systems.
- sebazzz 5y agoMore than 24h? Depending on the humidity in your home, it can be done in about 8 hours at 15-20C room temperature.
- cpach 5y agoAh, yeah if it was very damp inside, then air-drying might not be so nice. As someone who lives in northern Europe (Sweden), I rarely experience dampness in my home though.
- type0 5y agoIf humidity is low you can even dry clothes outside in freezing temperatures. Not exactly fast and might not be good for longevity of the fabrics if it's windy, that's called sublimation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sublimation_(phase_transition) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sublimation_(phase_transition)