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LifeSunDeath: Jan 4, 2007; still gay rights and smoke weed every day

Kith posted:

https://i.imgur.com/lyAXwj5.mp4

why in the holy gently caress would your dryer vent go up and out the roof? mine goes straight out the house right behind the dryer.

# ? Apr 25, 2024 18:57

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I can imagine if the dryer isn't near a wall abutting the outside.

# ? Apr 25, 2024 19:03

Captain Hygiene: Sep 17, 2007; You mess with the crabbo...

Yep, my dryer's in the back of my apartment, which puts it in the center of my building. The exhaust goes up and out between stories.

# ? Apr 25, 2024 19:07

holtemon: May 2, 2019; Dancing is forbidden

Antigravitas posted:

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Found this on le reddit. Terrifying

# ? Apr 25, 2024 19:27

StarkingBarfish: Jun 25, 2006; Novus Ordo Seclorum

holtemon posted:

Peltowned

# ? Apr 25, 2024 19:48

Zero One: Dec 30, 2004; HAIL TO THE VICTORS!

McGavin posted:

+ a bunch more Warning: You WILL die signs

# ? Apr 25, 2024 20:12

Robert Facepalmer: Jan 10, 2019

LOL; the 'ol spicy vacation.

or: My Summer Vacation and How I Became An Only Child.

# ? Apr 25, 2024 20:17

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holtemon posted:

Found this on le reddit. Terrifying

Well, at least they didn't die in vain. We got ~10kJ of clean energy for the grid out of the whole tragedy

# ? Apr 25, 2024 20:24

_____!: May 2, 2004

It seems like no one has clarified to our non Americans that our dryers have BOTH the exhaust and the little thing on the front (generally referred to as a lint trap). The exhaust is less for removing lint and more so you aren't super-heating your home in the summer.

# ? Apr 25, 2024 20:26

holtemon: May 2, 2019; Dancing is forbidden

_____! posted:

It seems like no one has clarified to our non Americans that our dryers have BOTH the exhaust and the little thing on the front (generally referred to as a lint trap). The exhaust is less for removing lint and more so you aren't super-heating your home in the summer.

True but also doesn't it start backing up into the exhaust if the lint trap is full?

# ? Apr 25, 2024 20:32

_____!: May 2, 2004

Yes that's why it needs to be emptied :v:

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But yeah some will get through regardless, all joking aside. I'm assuming non American dryers don't raise the temp in the house without the exhaust duct through some kind of magic. :q:

_____! fucked around with this message at 20:37 on Apr 25, 2024

# ? Apr 25, 2024 20:35

Antigravitas: Dec 8, 2019; Die Rettung fuer die Landwirte:

They don't, indeed. You can't make an efficient dryer if it vents hot air everywhere.

# ? Apr 25, 2024 20:45

_____!: May 2, 2004

Which was a roundabout way of getting to the question of why DO our dryers here have exhaust ducts if it isn't a problem anywhere else? Obviously it has to be something stupid.

# ? Apr 25, 2024 20:51

Leviathan Song: Sep 8, 2010

_____! posted:

Which was a roundabout way of getting to the question of why DO our dryers here have exhaust ducts if it isn't a problem anywhere else? Obviously it has to be something stupid.

A ventless dryer takes longer and the humidity stays inside your house.

# ? Apr 25, 2024 20:57

Flipperwaldt: Nov 11, 2011; Won't somebody think of the starving hamsters in China?

A heat pump dryer without an exhaust extracts the heat it uses from its surroundings, so it doesn't really first generate heat it then needs to get rid of. They work a bit slower though. If you don't have a place nearby to drain the collected water directly, you have to manually empty a reservoir. To some this is all an unacceptable loss of convenience. But it's mostly corporate masters deciding the American market doesn't care about the energy savings.

# ? Apr 25, 2024 21:03

Bajaha: Apr 1, 2011; BajaHAHAHA.

Leviathan Song posted:

A ventless dryer takes longer and the humidity stays inside your house.

The humidity goes down the drain. A ventless would typically be a heat pump unit. Moist air from the dryer drum passes over a cold evaporator coil which causes the moisture to condense and then drain out of the machine. The cool drier air is then heated back up by the condenser coil and this goes on until your clothes are dry.

It does take longer than just blasting your clothes with hot dry air though.

# ? Apr 25, 2024 21:04

Byzantine: Sep 1, 2007

Captain Hygiene posted:

Little known fact, the Morse code sequence ...---... originally represented "lol" as an efficient way to communicate that someone was drowning, before it was ultimately expanded to account for emergencies in general

It stands for "love our lord [Poseidon]".

# ? Apr 25, 2024 21:07

Platystemon: Feb 13, 2012; BREADS

Mynameismud posted:

Getting your bicycle wheel stuck in a tram rail (and injure yourself)

Yeah but you have to consider that the Dutch don�t believe in helmets.

# ? Apr 25, 2024 21:09

LifeSunDeath: Jan 4, 2007; still gay rights and smoke weed every day

holtemon posted:

Found this on le reddit. Terrifying

goddamn what a way to go out. the ultimate final waterslide.

# ? Apr 25, 2024 21:16

Platystemon: Feb 13, 2012; BREADS

LifeSunDeath posted:

goddamn what a way to go out. the ultimate final waterslide.

Zoomer coroner declares it to be sewerslide.

# ? Apr 25, 2024 21:18

LifeSunDeath: Jan 4, 2007; still gay rights and smoke weed every day

# ? Apr 25, 2024 21:20

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Bajaha posted:

The humidity goes down the drain. A ventless would typically be a heat pump unit. Moist air from the dryer drum passes over a cold evaporator coil which causes the moisture to condense and then drain out of the machine. The cool drier air is then heated back up by the condenser coil and this goes on until your clothes are dry.

It does take longer than just blasting your clothes with hot dry air though.

So I think it would be fair to say that all dryers require an accommodation of "exhaust" where for Americans it's air and for Euros it's water.

# ? Apr 25, 2024 21:31

Platystemon: Feb 13, 2012; BREADS

LimaBiker posted:

But that's not what i'm calling for. I want buses with the capacity of trams (yes they exist, Utrecht had them) on bus lanes that look and act in every single way like tram lines, except for the fact that you can stop sooner and move over a meter or two if needed.

This would result in more deaths due to the pollution created by all those tires.

# ? Apr 25, 2024 21:33

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# ? Apr 25, 2024 21:38

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Explosionface posted:

So I think it would be fair to say that all dryers require an accommodation of "exhaust" where for Americans it's air and for Euros it's water.

Yeah only in Europe they call it a "drain".

They call it a drain in America too when it's for water, but that's what it's called in Europe.

# ? Apr 25, 2024 22:00

bizwank: Oct 4, 2002

I'm in the US and have an LG all-in-one washer/dryer unit (so, a single box the size of a small front-load washer) that runs on 120v and takes about 3 hours to do a full load. There's no lint trap and no exhaust, but it does need a drain and a cold water supply; I could hook it up to a sink if my apartment didn't already have a washer/dryer hookup. It's lovely just starting a load before I leave for work and coming home to clean laundry. Real easy on my power bill too.

# ? Apr 25, 2024 22:04

Explosionface: May 30, 2011; We can dance if we want to,
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SyNack Sassimov posted:

Yeah only in Europe they call it a "drain".

They call it a drain in America too when it's for water, but that's what it's called in Europe.

Right, hence the quotes. Whether it's water draining for air blowing outside, they're helping the same process in different ways.

# ? Apr 25, 2024 22:06

RandomBlue: Dec 30, 2012; hay guys!; Biscuit Hider

Zero One posted:

maybe put some rails on your crazy zig zag bridge over death

# ? Apr 25, 2024 22:39

dobbymoodge: Mar 8, 2005

corgski posted:

She, and yes exactly.

Noted and corrected, thanks

# ? Apr 25, 2024 23:08

Zero VGS: Aug 16, 2002; ASK ME ABOUT HOW HUMAN LIVES THAT MADE VIDEO GAME CONTROLLERS ARE WORTH MORE; Lipstick Apathy

Explosionface posted:

So I think it would be fair to say that all dryers require an accommodation of "exhaust" where for Americans it's air and for Euros it's water.

You can also get one of these for $20 or less: https://www.homedepot.com/p/Everbilt-4-in-x-5-ft-Indoor-Dryer-Vent-Kit-with-Flexible-Duct-TDIDVKHD6/203626526

You pour water into it, the dryer vents to inside the house, and all the dust hits the water and sticks to the surface. I use it once a week and in the winter you're raising the temp and humidity in your apartment instead of blasting it straight out of the house, makes a lot more sense. It's a life saver if you can't punch a hole in your house or afford a ventless.

edit: As an OSHA bit, it says not to use them with Gas Dryers, but doesn't explain why. Apparently they all have that limitation.

Zero VGS fucked around with this message at 23:13 on Apr 25, 2024

# ? Apr 25, 2024 23:09

Platystemon: Feb 13, 2012; BREADS

Zero VGS posted:

edit: As an OSHA bit, it says not to use them with Gas Dryers, but doesn't explain why. Apparently they all have that limitation.

Do you want to wake up in the morning or not?

# ? Apr 25, 2024 23:21

Zero VGS: Aug 16, 2002; ASK ME ABOUT HOW HUMAN LIVES THAT MADE VIDEO GAME CONTROLLERS ARE WORTH MORE; Lipstick Apathy

Platystemon posted:

Do you want to wake up in the morning or not?

That's the joke, I mean why are they being vague instead of like "hey rear end in a top hat, don't even think of using this on a gas dryer or you're dead lol"

Fun fact though, burning natural gas doesn't actually make CO if it burns completely. That's why you can leave the oven going 10 hours. It's incomplete combustion that puts out CO.

Zero VGS fucked around with this message at 23:27 on Apr 25, 2024

# ? Apr 25, 2024 23:24

Platystemon: Feb 13, 2012; BREADS

It would make too much sense for dryers to have separate vents for tumbler exhaust and combustion products.

Even if they did, you�d still not want to vent the former indoors in case there�s a crack in the heat exchanger or whatever.

# ? Apr 25, 2024 23:31