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<blockquote data-quote="John Roberts" data-source="post: 73346" data-attributes="member: 126">Re: Home building/living suggestions wanted.Yup... I have been thinking about this stuff for a long time. In the dry north, when winter is often very low humidity, drying the clothes indoors could add humidity that increases personal comfort. I recall as a kid having water holders that hung off our radiators that we would fill with water in the winter months to increase indoor humidity.A refrigerator in the winter is throwing waste heat into the room, so not a big energy waste like in the summer when it increase room cooling load. I hypothesized combining a refrigerator with a water heater so the heat extracted from cooling food gets captured and used for heating water. Another DIY project I did just last week, is to install a small 3 lamp vanity fixture under my computer workstation with 3x 60w incandescent bulbs and a lamp dimmer for variable heat...&nbsp; works like a charm. it seems a waste to run a dryer in the winter and not capture the hot humid exhaust. Another project for another day. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :-)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" />JR</blockquote>

[QUOTE="John Roberts, post: 73346, member: 126"] Re: Home building/living suggestions wanted. Yup... I have been thinking about this stuff for a long time. In the dry north, when winter is often very low humidity, drying the clothes indoors could add humidity that increases personal comfort. I recall as a kid having water holders that hung off our radiators that we would fill with water in the winter months to increase indoor humidity. A refrigerator in the winter is throwing waste heat into the room, so not a big energy waste like in the summer when it increase room cooling load. I hypothesized combining a refrigerator with a water heater so the heat extracted from cooling food gets captured and used for heating water. Another DIY project I did just last week, is to install a small 3 lamp vanity fixture under my computer workstation with 3x 60w incandescent bulbs and a lamp dimmer for variable heat... works like a charm. it seems a waste to run a dryer in the winter and not capture the hot humid exhaust. Another project for another day. :-) JR [/QUOTE]

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