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So I don't care if this can harvest energy, but I care very much if it will reduce humidity without running a compressor. Because during the summer where I liv

• toast0 3y ago
  If you don't want to run a compressor, your other option is dessicants. The difficulty there is you've got to 'recharge' the dessicants, and that usually means heating them, and you probably don't want to heat your space (although increasing the temperature does reduce relative humidity). From what I've seen, the typical way to recharge dessicsants is to heat inside air, pass it over the saturated dessicant and then discharge this hot humid air outside, and I guess hope the makeup air you get back is less hot and humid? Maybe someone with such a system can chime in? I've only got a compressor based dehumidifier for my needs (basement humidity spikes in the summer when the temperature differential between the basement and the first floor is too great)