Earth science fail! I always thought clothes dryers blew hot air because the warmer temperatures made the water in *the clothes* evaporate faster.🤦🏿♂️
I never even thought about it.
Warmer air can hold so much more water than cooler air. So warming *the air* puts it further away from its maximum saturation point for evaporation, which speeds up the drying. Clothes temperature has little to do with it.
Just realizing this after reading some climate change / wet bulb temperature / flooding stuff.
mekka okereke :verified: /
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