XKCD: 3044: Humidifier Review

[Joy Beeson]

Discussed at

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3044:_Humidifier_Review

There are gas appliances, cookers and room heaters,
also gas clothes dryers, which can vent damp exhaust
directly to the room. But even when I paid for water,
I never fretted about the cost of humidity.

I'd like to be able to switch my clothes dryer to venting into the
room to conserve heat. It needs to be switchable when the weather is
warm, but I doubt that a dryer would put more water into the house
than clothing dried on racks, and they always dry fast enough to show
that they haven't raised the humidity much.

[Lynn McGuire]

Post by Joy Beeson
Discussed at
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3044:_Humidifier_Review

There are gas appliances, cookers and room heaters,
also gas clothes dryers, which can vent damp exhaust
directly to the room. But even when I paid for water,
I never fretted about the cost of humidity.

I'd like to be able to switch my clothes dryer to venting into the
room to conserve heat. It needs to be switchable when the weather is
warm, but I doubt that a dryer would put more water into the house
than clothing dried on racks, and they always dry fast enough to show
that they haven't raised the humidity much.

I used to do that for my clothes dryer in the garage. One particularly
cold winter, we got a layer of frost on everything inside the
uninsulated garage. I started vented outside again.

Lynn