Most of the commentary I see focuses exclusively on the technical aspects of drying clothes, heat exchangers, humidity, mould problems but I haven't seen one comment on the labor aspect of it. It takes a significant amount of time to take your clothes out of the washing machine and hang each and every garment either over a drying rack or pin it to a clothes line. Each and every sock, every pair of underwear and a couple of pins for each pair of pants and shirt. Not to mention sheets and towels. That's going to take a significant amount of space with a lot of walking back and forth or constantly moving a basket of heavy wet clothes.<p>I'm not saying it's a Herculean task but it's going to take time and you'd better to it right. Doing it wrong is a great way to stretch your cloths out and possibly damage them. This is just not the kind of time most people working full time are going to have.<p>You can leave it out while you're at work but you'll probably only do that until the first time it rains while you're at work and you have to pick up the cloths that blew off and ended up in the dirt and the rest of your clothes are soaked. What about people that live in the city? They don't generally even have a washer and dryer. They'll go to the laundromat. Do you want them to carry the wet heavy cloths home?
If only there were a way to dry clothes that didn't involve heat or tumbling. You'd need to do it outdoors to prevent pollution of indoor air.<p>I'm sure we could solve this problem, and scale it, if we could get a good funding round. ;-)
good argument for keeping the washer and dryer in the garage.<p>However, these fabrics are shedding lint into the air when worked and worn and out too, to some extent, even if not to the rate and with the spray that agitation and hot air give them.<p>The obvious solution for maximum health is to wear nothing but animal leather (birthday suits count!) and live outdoors.
The issue here is the plastic fibres being released and spread - a real issue. The lint filter grabs alot of it, but some escape.
Wouldn't these fibres break off anyway? So the problem is plastic and treated clothing releasing poisons. Also we are wearing these poisons.
Thus the problem is the regulation of the clothing industry, and choices we make regarding fashion.
Further, the problem is using poisons to manufacture many if not most of humanities daily goods.
"condenser dryers" have a lint filter which is supposed to collect said microplastics. They also recycle the same air so any fibers not collected by the filter stay inside the machine.<p><i>However</i>, despite all that, I still notice more lint in dust around my house in months I use the dryer. I suspect the dryer has a poor seal around the front and back of the drum (the seals are just made of felt, and as heavy clothes bounce around I think they briefly lose contact). That allows steamy linty air to leak into the body of the machine, and eventually escape out of cooling vents.
So this would theoretically be a lot worse for those washing machine + tumbledryer combi machines (1 drum for both functions) since those don't even have a lint filter as such?
I like the way they don't even bother to measure the PM2.5 and PM10, the stuff that kills human beings.<p>Instead it's the stuff the masses masturbates to, homeopathic microfibers which eat at our souls.<p>Science is broken, they could have tacked the real data on at small cost and have kept their self worth, but they don't even pretend to be real anymore.