About six years ago I surprised my co-workers with the news that I had constructed a solar powered clothes dryer. Most of them said something along the lines of "Wow, cool! How did you do that? How does it work?" Some raised an eyebrow and said, "so you put up a clothesline?" The determining factor was whether the person was raised in an American suburb (the most conformist, appearance-obsessed monoculture in history) where clotheslines are prohibited and as rare as backyard ore-smelters.
Ontario is passing legislation to make clotheslines legal across the province, invalidating priggish municipal regulations and homeowner covenants. They are not hard to build, and they quickly pay for themselves.
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