initial followup on a simple prototype

So last week we had a fairly complete run of laundry using the simple heat reclamation/humidity gain prototype.

It wasn't a true full week, because one of our housemates wasn't able to use the laundry during that time, but it was still eight typical loads, which is a reasonable number for a first run.

Temperature:

During these runs, we reclaimed about .8°C per load, on average, outside the laundry. This clearly indicates at least partial distribution to other parts of the house. Temperature sensors on the same floor support this. It's not as distributed as it could be, since the dryer itself is exhausting air, but the positive gain shows that this reclamation produces a neat positive in heat, vs. the net loss caused by the dryer taking air in from the house and expelling it outdoors.

Humidity:

The runs show short-term spikes of 4-5 points of humidity per run at the sensor outside the laundry, which again indicates of which about 2 end up sticky and shared across the building. At no point have we exceeded 60% relative humidity, which is relevant because sustained humidity above that point starts becoming conducive to mould and mildew growth.

(This is why showers have exhaust fans.)

Dust/particulate escape:

None observed, including no atypical buildup of dust. Given that the exhaust vent is a HEPA filter, this is unsurprising, but nice to have confirmed. It does the kind of job you'd want it to in this application, while still allowing for substantial heat and humidity reclamation.

Filter clogging:

One of the several complaints about full indoor venting is the fast rate at which dry filters clog - how quickly depends entirely on the lint content of any set of laundry, but it's a problem no matter what type of loads are being washed. Some reviewers of the most popular indoor dry exhaust filter on Amazon report having to clean the filter in as few as every two or three loads.

Water filters are the more typical solution to this problem, but those require that water be added and/or changed out on a regular basis.

So I was pleasantly surprised in that there was no clogging of the filter, and indeed very little buildup even on the very thin charcoal prefilter. The exceptions were a small number of large particles of lint, clearly aggregated beforehand, probably indicating it's time to clean out the vent pathway in the dryer itself again. This supports my hypothesis that in practical application, providing separate escape for the small fragments which make it past the lint filter does in fact direct most of them that way.

It also demonstrates that even weekly filter cleanings are most likely unnecessary in our case. I will continue to watch the prefilter lint accumulation rate in an attempt to determine how quickly buildup occurs. At this point I have reason to suspect that with our normal loads, a monthly cleanout routine is likely to be adequate, and that at very least, weekly cleanout is entirely unnecessary.

the party of sabotage commits sabotage because it works

Mehdi Hasan - @mehdirhasan · 1:39 PM · Jan 14, 2022
It begins...

New Virginia Governor Youngkin to Lift School Mask Mandate, Change COVID Policies
Virginia’s next governor, Glenn Youngkin, said he will lift the state’s school mask mandate and change other COVID-19 policies after taking office Jan. 15.

If you vote for the @GOP, you are voting to make the plague worse.

This is what they do.

They are a party literally doing everything in their power to make COVID-19 worse, sabotaging every attempt to control it, at every level.

This is an extension of their general philosophy, that either it's their country to rule, or there'll be no country to rule.

When in power, they loot, funneling money upwards.

When out of power, they sabotage everything in sight.

Even attempts to control a deadly pandemic.

They do this because _it works_. It rewards them with power, because people blame the "ruling party," no matter what the opposition does.

In our system, the opposition can do a lot. When it's acting in good faith, that's fine. Healthy.

When it's acting in _bad_ faith, it's not.

Right now, they're doing everything in their power to sabotage the economy, the right to vote - even working to make COVID worse.

And people ignore all that, blaming those who are at least _trying_ to get this under control.

Exactly as the GOP expect.

That's why they do it.

Because. It. Works.

So every time someone goes, "I'm never voting again!" or "I'm never voting Democratic again," you might hear a little _snap_.

That's another Republican saboteur getting their pitchfork.

"Our Country, or No Country" is why the country is falling apart.

I mean, there are a bunch of other reasons, _obviously_. This shit works because of other reasons, _obviously_, the single biggest one of which is racism, the second biggest one of which is misogyny, and I think they're more neck and neck than a lot of people realise.

It's their out-and-out willingness to go all-in on balls-to-the-wall it's-ours-or-we'll-destroy-it-all bad-faith exploitation of it - to make it worse, not better, and all for power...

_That's_ what's breaking everything apart.

And they know.

And they don't care.

Because if it's not their country, as far as they're concerned, there shouldn't be a country.

See MTG's "national divorce," just for starters.

Most of them don't want to go that far. For one thing, that wouldn't leave them enough "liberals" to "own." But also, it'd hurt the economy in the wrong ways.

They'd rather just destroy democracy, and replace it with a facade where they can't lose power.

Which is, of course, the goal.

So I suppose for the most part it's less "Our Country or No Country," it's more, "Our Democracy, or No Democracy."

Which, really, is about the same thing.

Hungary and Russia are the models. The pretense, but not the reality, of representative government.

And every time you blame the opposition for Republican sabotage, and decide not to vote, or reward them in _any_ way...

...you move it a little further along.

I mean, sure, bitch at Democrats all you want to. Go at 'em. Primary the worst fuckers, absolutely - Manchin, Sinema? Fuck yeah go at. I sure am.

But in the end, put the blame where it most belongs: at the feet of those trying to end the democracy of this republic. The GOP.