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Let's see if releasing this on labor day weekend was a good idea...

Desiccant dehumidifiers are fascinating... but not for everyone

A whole new meaning to "spin dry"Connextras experiment: https://youtu.be/0xLzDF7PZW8Original video: https://youtu.be/j_QfX0SYCE8Other stuff:Technology Connec...
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hukl
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Still waiting for that angry letter to the toaster manufacturers or some kind of follow up to your video about the best toaster that isn't made anymore 😀 Every time a new video comes out on your channel I'm hoping you'll come back to that. The biggest cliff hanger in your catalogue 😁
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Carl (He/Him)
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Any chance you could make your stuff visible on some other service? I find YT increasingly unpleasant to use. Nebula is the one I already subscribe to, if you want direct income.

Bribe: I'll join your Patreon if you do it. I have zero problem giving you money. I have big problems giving YouTube anything including eyeballs.

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@nitpicking Videos are now being uploaded to Patreon and can be watched there. However, Patreon's video quality sucks compared to YT.

I know many people (especially here) loathe the idea of giving Google any money at all, but if there are creators on YouTube you like, YT premium functions pretty much like Nebula does. It's the main reason I haven't considered joining Nebula, it feels like a mix of Patreon and YouTube Premium but with extra steps.

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Technology Connections
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@nitpicking I could have quite the conversation about my thoughts here. I have a lot of stuff in my mind regarding affordances of platforms, gatekeeping of streaming services, discoverability and audience, algorithms, etc. etc.

On balance, I'd still rather be on YouTube and supported directly via Patreon.

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Technology Connections
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@nitpicking Listen, the fact that Google owns YouTube makes me more than very nervous, but YouTube's moat is what it is because they pay creators for their labor.
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Ceri
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Peertube might work as a 3rf platform, but there are 3 BIG problems with using peertube:
* Its yet another site to upload to
* the decentralized nature has attracted awful ideals(far-right mainly) on many instances, although you could probably find a well moderated instances
* i dont think you can monitize the content on there
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DEVilonger 📟🎀
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Hi Alec! Big fan of yours!
Could you _maybee_ by chance upload some of your videos to a peertube instance?
That way we'd have two sources for videos! (Without using the magic of buying two of them though 😛)
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InsertUser
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I've heard Seattle gets pretty damp for similar reasons to Blighty. Maybe they're the ideal US target market?

Although TBH I've used a refrigerant dehumidifier in England with no problem whatsoever. The defrost cycle has to kick in every now and then in the winter but once that's done it's back to business as usual. (That was in an inhabited space though, not an unheated cellar.)

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Helge Wurst
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Now if instead of a little electric heater we could attach the pipe feeding hundreds of kWh at 60-70°C to a dehumidifier box, that'd be sweet for all the "cold and wet winter" countries.

Is that enough of a temperature rise?

Edit: found one, but it's for greenhouse-scale operations

image of a radiator taken from https://www.hunker.com/12172339/how-does-a-house-radiator-work/
"A prototype, which realizes a small desiccant dehumidifier that has a sufficient dehumidification performance using low-quality heat (approximately 60 °C), such as the hot water produced by solar energy or discharged from gas engine heat pumps (GHP) or micro co-generation systems, was designed and developed. " https://www.yanmar.com/global/about/technology/technical_review/2017/1005_5.html
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Simon Poole
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wrt labor day, any chance of you disclosing what % of you viewers are not based in the US? Just out of idle interest.
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correlates with Big Clive's video on these; simply not that efficient unless you also want the room heat and use resistive heating
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Is this the same technology tumble dryers use? I've got one that collects the water in a tray. Getting the notion to weigh my next load of washing and see how much water is collected now...
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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE
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It's cold and damp here. Having watched that I think I'll stick to the conventional heat pump dehumidifier.
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Spot on about them about them being most useful over here, where the main use case for a dehumidifier is in winter to prevent mould.
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Tomáš Beneš
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that might be the first time I've heard "quintuple" 😲 Thanks for the funny alternative subtitle comment though.
BTW my Bosch washing machine (SBD6TCX00E) uses silica gel technology too for better drying of plastic materials, surprisingly on Eco mode, and it also smells awkward (not bad) as you noted.
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Alessandro
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can’t seem to find any on Amazon.it so probably we call them something else, but: would one of those be a sensible alternative to a space heater for the bathroom? Turn it on, warm the place up and get some humidity out while showering?
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Hi, I really enjoyed your video. You mentioned several times that the desiccant dehumidifiers are better in colder environments because of the ice problem in other dehumidifiers. Could you give a quantitive value for that? Are we talking sub 20°C or sub 15°C?
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Sebastian Stenzel
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if there just was some technology that could move 5x as much heat energy than it consumed electrical energy... e.g. from the condenser straws to the wheel heater thing.
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Itchy Demon
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Rotary desicants are of some (if limited) use in some parts of the United States. I live in an area with lots of streams, rivers, creeks, swimming pools, and a few lakes, so humidity can be quite high in the shoulder seasons. My garage's dehumidifier suffers from the freezing issue during spring and autumn when I normally need heat, and the garage isn't "plumbed" for the HVAC system, so I might end up getting a rotary desicant at some point.
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