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re: frugal and free power for an emergency
27 jun 1999
jerry chase wrote:
>nicksanspam@ece.vill.edu wrote:
>> why not use a closet for an airshaft (and clothes dryer :-), with
>>a 4' diameter 110v 100w 25k cfm ceiling fan to force air down through
>>a low-temp "warm room" full of thermal mass in the basement...
>clothes dryer?
seems convenient. just hang up the wet clothes in the closet on a sunny day.
no need to touch them again. why not use a couple of in-line closets with
floor registers as a vertical airshaft in a house?
>and what do you do with all the condensed moisture on the surfaces
>of your thermal mass?
...12 pounds of wash at 20% moisture is about a quart. let it flow out
through a basement drain, after it's helped transfer solar heat to the
mass, more efficiently than by convection?
>isn't the sun a good enough dryer on its own? remember clothes lines?
they're cool, but a little more work.
nick
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