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Hot or Not? BreezeDry Ambient Clothes Dryer

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The new BreezeDry clothes dryer brings the freshness of line drying inside by using ambient air to dry your hanging clothes. Your clothes will dry in about 90 minutes at a significant energy savings over a standard clothes dryer.

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The BreezeDry is made in the USA and, according to the manufacturer, you can dry an entire load of laundry using only a fraction of the energy of a conventional dryer. You hang your clothes an inch or two apart and in 90 minutes they're dry. The built-in dryer pulls air from either inside or outside your house (depending on how you have it configured) and it quietly circulates the air into the unit. It can accommodate a full load of laundry and uses no heat.

Via ThisOldHouse.

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Looks like a refrigerator.
In fact it probably works nearly the same way, refrigerators don't actually create cold air, they suck the hot water out of your food (sort of).
http://home.howstuffworks.com/refrigerator.htm
You could probably achieve the same effect by hanging your shirts next to your leftovers.

posted by Rolen the Great on May 4th 2009 at 2:39pm
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Doesn't look like it would truly dry all my clothes- my washer holds about 4 or 5 times the amount shown in the photos. Better off just hanging to air dry & use no electricity at all or take up a gross amount of sq footage.

posted by tallsarah on May 4th 2009 at 6:01pm
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It's the size of my work clothes wardrobe. Hmm... I could use it *instead* of that wardrobe... There'd be no "putting things away" step of laundry!

(Along the same lines, if I were to re-do my kitchen I'd seriously consider putting in all FP Dishdrawers instead of lower cabinet drawers. That might be taking the principle a bit too far...)

posted by morfydd on May 5th 2009 at 5:03am
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