Clothes dryers are notorious energy vampires. The Dryer Miser system, showcased at the 2008 International Builders’ Show in Orlando uses a proprietary fluid in the heat exchange process to cut energy consumption by up to 50% and the drying time by up to 41%. So you save time and energy.
What's great about this solution is it is an add-on kit: "With our upgrade kit, fitting your traditional clothes dryer with the Hydronic Dryer is easy. A trained service technician will install your Hydronic Dryer in less then 30 minutes."
So, anyone actually use this yet? Does installing it void your manufacturer's warranty? Looking for the catch...
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Have you looked at anything that describes how this works? The website has NO concrete information and quite a bit of obfuscation.
Just the mangled syntax and non-existent content in text like "Made of durable copper and aluminum, the Hydronic Dryer’s heat technology [technology made of metal?] works by heating up a specially formulated, non-toxic and non-corrosive heat transfer fluid with an immersion element (similar to a water heater). The fluid is transferred to a heat exchanger where it is mixed with air [if the fluid mixes with air, you're in deep doo-doo]" should make you pause.
The explanation sounds like an electric heating coil, which make the claims impossible, as the heat energy on a dollar basis of electricity is 1/3 that of gas. If you use heat-pump technology (there are hp dryers on the market, quite expensive), you reach about 80% of gas, (COP of 2.4) which is as far as you can go.
Google this...the same dubious claim is on a hundred sites, all from the company PR. If they have invented a free lunch, I will be the first to eat crow.
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