One advantage of hang-drying is it's less destructive to fabrics... I wash at 30 degrees on a 1-hour cycle, and hang dry... my clothes seem to pretty much last forever.

Except for trousers, which eventually get a hole in the crotch. Fucking trousers...

I think it'd represent a great deal of progress - in terms of our simplistic way of thinking that equates convenience and the harnessing of fossil fuels to human advancement. It requires a lot of destructive practices to manufacture, operate, and dispose of clothes dryers. That's more enlightened than using a 100% sustainable clothesline and a breeze?