Interview I hadn't seen, about leaving LIVE and his solar set up! Options

[jayda]

http://planetgreen.discovery.com/feature/i...lar-effect.html

Gotta ask - why do Americans dry clothes in clothes dryers? We hang everything outside to dry - all year round! Especially strange and very UNGREEN to have such a great solar set up and talk about all the sunshine where he lives and in the next breath talk about the dryer!

I understand if you live in those really cold, snowy places!!!

[Aitkens]

http://planetgreen.discovery.com/feature/i...lar-effect.html

Gotta ask - why do Americans dry clothes in clothes dryers? We hang everything outside to dry - all year round! Especially strange and very UNGREEN to have such a great solar set up and talk about all the sunshine where he lives and in the next breath talk about the dryer!

I understand if you live in those really cold, snowy places!!!

because it makes the clothing softer and eliminates the wrinkles. i hate wearing jeans that were hung up to dry, they feel like burlap bags.

[OutToDry]

interesting article, never seen it but the home is still for sale (gp said earlier that it wasn't)

[Merica]

Can't knock the solar / green stuff. Well played, Ed.

[jayda]

because it makes the clothing softer and eliminates the wrinkles. i hate wearing jeans that were hung up to dry, they feel like burlap bags.

You're fussy If you peg your stuff out at night and bring it in in the morning then it will be nice and soft...of course I'm talking during the warmer weather. I do this thru summer.

You know what else eliminates the wrinkles? Body heat!!! Just put those burlap bags on and wrinkles be gone! Or you could just throw in the dryer for a few minutes to achieve those outcomes you prefer?

[Aitkens]

You're fussy If you peg your stuff out at night and bring it in in the morning then it will be nice and soft...of course I'm talking during the warmer weather. I do this thru summer.

You know what else eliminates the wrinkles? Body heat!!! Just put those burlap bags on and wrinkles be gone! Or you could just throw in the dryer for a few minutes to achieve those outcomes you prefer?

I'll stick with my dryer, and the roughly 45-60 minutes it takes to dry an entire load of laundry.

[OutToDry]

lots of people still use clotheslines to dry their clothes in the spring and summer but we cannot during the winter.

[Good_Pain]

interesting article, never seen it but the home is still for sale (gp said earlier that it wasn't)

Well I guess I was wrong......looks like Charred Mountain is still on the market

[Badman]

Most neighborhoods ban the practice because it lowers property values. It makes the place look poor because they cannot afford driers.

[dangum]

Most neighborhoods ban the practice because it lowers property values. It makes the place look poor because they cannot afford driers.

Here in Australia we hang our clothes at the back of the house where nobody can see them.

[+Ed+]

Here in Russia we don't have our own houses so we have no place to hang our clothes.

We don't even have any clothes.

It is eaten by the bears

[Sal]

interesting article, never seen it but the home is still for sale (gp said earlier that it wasn't

If you were gonna buy that house... You'd wanna really love persimmon fruit

My  husband and I are thinking about getting a dryer to use in winter, would never use it in summer though what a waist of electricity!  Although if I had a huge solar set up like Ed I guess I'd use all year round

[jayda]

Here in Russia we don't have our own houses so we have no place to hang our clothes.

We don't even have any clothes.

It is eaten by the bears

We are lucky that kangaroos are vegetarians. You should hunt down the bears and use their skins for clothing

[PurdueSteve]

Don't worry. The US is lagging behind most European countries and the land down under. Eventually our nanny state governments will whip us into complacent fools resulting in an economy where people can't afford the electricity to dry clothes but fortunately due to a lack of work will have the free time to hang them outside.

It's only a matter of time before a government figures out how to tax solar usage anyway.

I'm also curious about theft, if one had an expensive clothes, wouldn't they get stolen being left out all night?

[jayda]

Don't worry. The US is lagging behind most European countries and the land down under. Eventually our nanny state governments will whip us into complacent fools resulting in an economy where people can't afford the electricity to dry clothes but fortunately due to a lack of work will have the free time to hang them outside.

It's only a matter of time before a government figures out how to tax solar usage anyway.

I'm also curious about theft, if one had an expensive clothes, wouldn't they get stolen being left out all night?

I had an underwear incident when I was 13 (mind out of the gutter now - I was 13) and staying weekends at my father's apartment. The clothes lines were shared and there was a creep taking stuff off the line. 

I don't know about suburbia though. I'm on a farm and hubby put my big clothes line in a field where I have to hike uphill (for the exercise).  No one could be bothered if they got past the vicious brutes anyway. 

And I don't have expensive clothes