I’ve long been an eager advocate of clotheslines and clothesline usage.
Today I learned about this organization: http://www.laundrylist.org/
And:
Laundry hung outside in winter will freeze, but it will also dry. That’s thanks to sublimation, the process in which a solid converts to vapor without going through the intermediate liquid phase.
I didn’t know that. So cool and such the reason for a science experiment.
More info from Laundry List:
Some states have passed “right to dry” laws. In Florida, no one can ban clotheslines. Colorado law protects retractable, but not permanent, clotheslines. In 2008, Hawaii’s governor vetoed a ‘right to dry’ bill.
The nonprofit organization Project Laundry List fights to make air-drying laundry acceptable and desirable as a simple, effective way to save energy.
Clothes dryers account for about 6% of your home electricity use, according to the US Department of Energy.
You can keep about 1,000 pounds of CO2 a year out of the atmosphere if you air-dried half your laundry loads.
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6%?? Wow! I need to go check out the list! Thanks for the info
we hang our laundry in the basement in the winter… mostly because outside it is too darn cold. lol it takes a bit longer then in the summer, but it is still done in less then 24 hours!
Awesome! As you know, I’ve been a longtime advocate of the clothesline (*nothing* better for brightening cloth diapers than a little time in the sunshine!). But I’ve always fallen back on the dryer in the winter months. I had no idea about sublimation. Cool…I’m going to try it!!
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