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> Use evaporative humidifiers

You don't have to buy one either. A suspended wet towel with a fan blowing on it will work very well. If you want to get fancy, have the last inch or two of the towel sitting in a tray of water.



That's a permanent bachelor design aesthetic.


Turns out young me was on to something, I wasn't just leaving wet towels laying around, I was fixing the air humidity problem.


But then I have to buy the towel and the fan, the tray, something to suspend the towel at the right height …


This is cheaper, and the towel and fan can be repurposed. Just buy a 3D printer for making the the suspension part (/jest)


My brother's house in Perth, Australia has an antique air conditioning system in the roof space that works in exactly this principle. 4 blankets that wick up water and have air drawn through them and into the house by a fan. It's in disuse now but I understand they were common and quite effective in the day.


They're usually called "swamp coolers" and are very effective iff you have very low ambient humidity. Utterly useless in humid climates.

I’m not sure that has a performance of 0.3L per hour (needed when it’s real cold outside).

But any thing beats nothing, I guess. Kudos to you




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