Yeah, multiple candles around the house including bedrooms. WTF could go wrong????
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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Probably not.
I will vouch for the Brooklyn Lantern. For $15, you get a lot of light fo a long time, and they are safe.
My interdimensional portal that I used to get here makes an excellent heater if I just turn it up to 1/3 power. ‘Course, it’s really just getting it’s power from the other side of the portal. We have all we need there so it’s no big deal.
-after the light bills went up directly in proportion to 12cents/kwh times the hours operated nobody said much and they are no longer in sight---
OK, I’ll buy that explanation.
It IS more efficient to heat the person instead of the space.
Preppers’ PING!!
Hahaha!
Do not try this at home!
But wouldn’t a light bulb (the old, illegal, incandescent kind) under a flower pot do the same thing and be less of a fire hazard?
Better you freeze to death than increase your carbon foot print and cause more Globull warming!
Yes, the key is the “mass” of the clay absorbing and re-radiating the heat as infrared to the nearby body to be warmed.
Same principle as the rocket mass heater.
These candles can work for very small spaces, like a tent or snow cave. They take the chill off but don’t keep it at 75 degrees.
I swear I’m going to try this.
Better yet
2 woodstoves
lots of felled trees
1 Husqvarna chainsaw
Yes I would say it would. I now some people with hunting dogs that heat the dog house with a incandescent bulb. But I believe the idea here is something that would work even with the power off.
I kept one for myself and gave one to my daughter. I had purchased a similar type of lattern in a local store but it doesn’t give off half the light that the Brooklyn Lantern does. This time the TV hype didn’t lie.
Maybe if you live in Hawaii and it’s a little chilly.
I have what many would consider to be a small house (except Odingos family...).
It has a footprint of 698 sq. ft. Plus a 350 sq. ft. loft.
Made of VERY well insulated structural insulated panels (SIP’s) - the house is extremely efficient.
On CLEAR days the house can get to 80 degrees F when the high outside is less than 10 degrees F. We have wonderful solar gain.
BUT - when the wind comes - and we live on a very exposed area of a mountain - all the insulation we have goes - - - pffffft!
Three tea candles can slowly warm-up my Velveeta - I would not consider them for a house heater.
I’ve got a charcoal grill for that! </joke>
Plus you can wear the flowerpots on your head like Devo.
I bought a bunch of kerosene lanterns at garage sales, etc. Provides good light and a little bit of heat. Years ago the power went out. I was working on my laptop off of a marine battery under the kerosene lamp. Sent off my report over the dial up on the phone line. Boy - talk about pioneer days!
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