Why dry your clothes for free and zero carbon footprint, when you can dry them with paid energy and shorten their lifespan in the process
At the cost of a thousand dollars plus recurring energy bills.
The energy bill difference is probably a lot less than you might think, at least for a lot of people. Anyone running a dehumidifier or air conditioner is going to be paying a large chunk of the cost anyways in recondensing the moisture back out of the air.