How does the season or it being rainy or not change anything? I have been air drying my laundry all year round for the past eight years and I live in a pretty rainy climate.

You do not need to watch your clothes dry. They dry all on their own. You are free to do other things in the meantime.

Not sure how this relates to anything other than that you seem to be shook enough by what I said to dig through my comment history.

Honestly, for me personally this doesn’t make any sense.

Firstly most fabric softeners are terrible for the moisture wicking abilities of fabrics. You should never use them on towels, bed sheets or any clothing that you expect to absorb sweat to some degree. They are known to contain chemicals that can pollute the ground water and they also cost money.

Now taking into account all that and the fact that using a dryer is very energy intensive, I find making all those comprimises just because you want your clothing to be soft is less than understandable.

I live in a 190sqft (18m²) single bedroom apt and I have the space for it. The amount of people that have even less space should be pretty low. At least the drying rack folds up and hides behind a cabinet. The dryer doesn’t.

I don’t get why people would waste energy on drying clothes with a dryer if you can just as well air dry them.

I use mine everyday.

EteSync?

I’m not saying that cost of power is entirely irrelevant.

I’m saying that “My setup consumes a lot of power, but that’s fine because it doesn’t cost me much” is kind of backwards. While monetary cost certainly is one of the arguments for energy efficiency, responsibly using resources and avoiding wasting energy are way more compelling ones imo. That especially applies if your energy isn’t produced via renewable means.

Even if power was entirely free of monetary cost, you shouldn’t waste it, don’t you agree?

I really don’t like how people most commonly try to justify the monetary cost of their power consumption.

In my opinion the way more important metrics should be how the energy you are consuming is generated and how much carbon emissions are caused by it.

Who cares that your 2000W@230V idle are “free”, if that means you are burning crude oil in your backyard to generate it…