daestrom wrote:
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I see daestrom's point from a Physics point of view, but in
practicality I agree with Nick. With months of heating season ahead,
you have damp air in your house. What can happen to that air? It can
be ventilated, exhausted from the house (and, in most climates,
replaced by drier air) and the vapour energy is simply lost (to the
homeowner). The only way to keep the energy is to condense the vapour
inside the house, and the best place for the condensed vapour is down
the drain (or in houseplants), thanks to a dehumidifier. Not in your
books or insulation or constantly on your windowpanes.


The only problem with that here in NY is, we don't have a lot of 'damp air'
in the house in the winter time. Quite the opposite, because of low outside
temperatures, the house can be quite dry and we have to run a *humidifier*,
not a *dehumidifier*. Not for any sort of energy, but just for
comfort/health.

See subject line, "Pacific Coastal Dehumidifier". Here in Canada, it
seems difficult to get a dehumidifier you could put in your living
space (all the ones I have seen are too loud, they might go in the
basement) because so much of Canada has a Continental climate not too
dissimilar from New York.

Some houses, such as my own, have humidity excess from late September
until June. Aside from the Pacific Coastal climate, those in other
areas could have the same challenge if their house is built tightly, as
Nick pointed out.

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Jonathan Berry