Easy Savings - Run your Dryer on Free Energy

Step 10 Almost done - Hook it up

Run one end of the hose to your attic or other source of hot air.

I strung it up in our drafty attic, near the peak of the roof, where it gets very hot on summer days.
Its not dusty up there so I did not install a filter at the end of the hose.

Insert the other end into the dryer hood.

Put the dryer back in place.

Comments

[lilroud]

lol, i know bump... but.... lolololol

[0087adam]

The Laws of Thermodynamics state that hot air rises and cool air sinks, so when u get air out of that attic, its the coolest air in the place, you need to put it up higher and use a small fan to pump it in, maybe hook the fan to a small array of calculator solar panels, they should be enough to power a small cpu fan.

[getack]

lol

[DrChill]

0087adam Thats not right. The air is hottest, not coolest as you said in your comment. The dryer pulls the air from the attic without any help or added fans.

[0087adam]

im sorry i can be hard to understand sometimes. i meant the lower part of the attic is cooler than the upper part

[jrh065]

That makes plenty of sense, but nearly all vents that attics have are near the highest point. That may end up in the attic actually being cooler at the top. Someone should take some temp readings over a few weeks :)