My big concern would be mold. From my
experience with fiddling with dryer venting and using it to keep a
greenhouse from freezing at night, the venting blows a lot of lint. When it was blown through longer runs of venting pipe, the lint starts to stick inside as well as collect at the opening. And thats what tends to mold, it seems.
Im not sure how one could effectively remove the lint first. The regular dryer lint catch hasnt been good
enough on the dryers i have owned.
I think mold in greenhouse airtubes is underrecognized. Besides being a problem for sensitive humans, it seems like it could create problems fot plants and starts, too.
I spent most of my
gardening time in western Oregon though, where fungal diseases are a big problem. And algae. I once worked in a commercial biodynamic and organic greenhouse that had a bad algae issue that the previous owner reported started when a worker left an aquarium in the greenhouse. Ever after that event, every plant cell grew a thick layer of algae on it as it was watered. It became a race to see if the seed would start first, or the algae. Greenhouses can become a bit like petri dishes!
One thing im not sure is beneficial about wet air going through air tubes is that wouldnt the process of losing that heat in the ground negate the effectivness of the air tube? Wouldnt it be more effective to just run the hot air straight into the greenhouse? Thats what i did a couple winters, and that worked.
I do love the idea of recapturing waste hot air though, of
course. Do you live somewhere that a dryer is needed? The attic heat idea - does your attic get hot enough in the plant starting season to make a big heating impact? How hot do you think that would need to be?