Posted on 01/09/2014 12:58:24 PM PST by RKBA Democrat
As parts of the United States prepare for record-breaking cold temperatures, a YouTube video showing an alternative way to heat your home might come in handy.
The video, which we first found on Why Don't You Try This, was made by journalist and boat-owner Dylan Winter. All you need to make this do-it-yourself heater are tea lights, a loaf tin, and two clay flower pots.
You can find tea light candles at pretty much any drug or hardware store. A pack of 50 is only $5.99 at CVS, for instance.
In the video, Winter places four tea lights into a loaf tin and covers them with a small flower pot that's turned upside down. He then covers the drain hole on the bottom of the small pot with the metal casing from one of the tea lights. The small pot is covered by a bigger flower pot and the hole is not covered.
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Hat tip to TBW2 for the link.
This doesn’t pass the “btu” smell test.
Sounds like a good way to burn your house down.
I’ve considered keeping the makings for one in the car.
Yeah, it doesn’t magically create more heat by burning it in a flower pot.
Candle power. Right on.
That Tea Light Heating may work in certain conditions; with no small children, no unsteady elderly, no dogs or cats, indoor rabbits, no one who tends to wear long draping garments that come close to the floor. No medical Marijuana user either, because they may become easily unfocused after a heavy dose of ‘medicine’.
“Sounds like a good way to burn your house down.”
Which will keep your house VERY well heated. For a little while. ;-)
This is definitely a good, cheap idea for a room heater. I will put together this set up for sure for downstairs and for bedrooms.
Zeer Pot Fridge. Cool your food or drinks with no electric needed!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcuSlaecvIw
This doesn’t pass the “btu” smell test.
Isn’t this what caused the great Chicago fire? A cow and a candle?
Build a man a fire and you will warm him for a day.
Set a man on fire and he will be warm the rest of his life.
There is no extra heat being created here. The flower pot absorbs then re-radiates the heat.
Thermodynamics...
http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=409869
About 0.2W...
Maybe it would work in one of those 95 sq ft houses.
This doesn’t produce carbon monoxide?
I am SO DONE with candles after our week-long power outage last winter. Not only are they dim and cold, I don’t even think they are pretty any more. Could barely see to make coffee, although I had a whole slew of them. Sure couldn’t read by them.
We got LED lanterns for the next one, thank you. Made me aware of the Reality of soddies and early cabins/ early American way of life. No thanks for me.
We have a 40 ft boat in Ventura Harbor. Pretty good weather usually but when the sun goes down on the water it gets cold. I can light 2 large container candles and as long as it’s not really cold they will darn near keep the interior heated up enough to be comfy as long as the boat is closed up and stays closed up.
Now I get it...the vacuum keeps all the heat in the house!
lol
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