A Solar Fabric Dehydrator is the hottest new kind of low-cost renewable energy source that dries your clothes with no carbon emissions. Yes, you can tell your friends you have installed solar and wind power at your home, for the price of a clothesline. Why dry your laundry with fossil fuel powered energy when you can take advantage of the sun and wind in your own backyard.

 

Energy Star says electric clothes dryers use 4 % of residential electricity in the United States, while the US Department of Energy rate them as the second biggest user of household energy.

 

Consider air-drying laundry on clotheslines or drying racks:

Solar power is free

Sun is a natural germ killer, more effective than bleach

Clothes will last longer and smell nice

Fun family project, good exercise, relaxing

Humidify dry winter air in your home by hanging laundry to dry on racks

Prevent 200 pounds of carbon dioxide a year for one less dryer-load a week

 

CLOTHES DRYING TOOLS

 

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a bamboo rack

 

 

 

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a metal rack for over the tub

 

 

 

 

 

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a retractable multiple line clothesline

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an umbrella clothesline for outdoors

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good old clothesline if you have a place to hang one

This is Step #6 from the 25 Steps to Saving Energy from Cool Congregations,

a program of Iowa Interfaith Power & Light