Brian, you're reminding me of a conversation I had with Matthew when he was here in 2009. We were driving around and passed a house that had one of these:
I don't know what they're really called, I call them 'laundry umbrellas". So after seeing it, Matthew said he was surprised he hadn't seen more of them around, and that in NZ, just about every house has one.
I turned to him and said: "Interesting. Well, in America we have this thing called 'electricity', and we use it to dry our clothes with a dryer."
He looked at me and rolled his eyes.