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How To Heat Your Home Using Just Tea Lights And Flower Pots
Business Insider ^ | 1-6-14 | Dina Spector

Posted on 01/09/2014 12:58:24 PM PST by RKBA Democrat

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To: rottndog
This doesn’t produce carbon monoxide?

No, not much, at least not initially. Most forms of combustion don't produce CO instead of CO2 until the air becomes oxygen-depleted. Which of course causes its own problems for occupants.

CO is nothing to mess about with. A co-worker couple decades ago misused some equipment and wound up with permanent brain damage. Very sad.

81 posted on 01/09/2014 1:49:24 PM PST by Sherman Logan
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To: RKBA Democrat

Come on. This will create a polar vortex in your house which will cause you house to go sub-zero. The bad news is that you house will be globally warmed next summer sending the highs to 115+.


82 posted on 01/09/2014 1:51:13 PM PST by Starstruck (If my reply offends, you probably don't understand sarcasm or criticism...or do.)
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To: MrB
This doesn’t pass the “btu” smell test.

Math is Hard!!!


83 posted on 01/09/2014 1:51:40 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: oh8eleven

“Yeah, multiple candles around the house including bedrooms. WTF could go wrong????”

I’ve already said one would have to be smarter than a flower pot to use this. Evidently, you are not. I have gobs of jar candles and am smart enough to know no candle is left by itself - I will be where the lit candle is or it is not lit.


84 posted on 01/09/2014 1:51:49 PM PST by Marcella ((Prepping can save your life today. I am a Christian, not a Muslim.))
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To: RKBA Democrat

To really conserve energy, what can be done is to build what is called a tile stove, oven stove, or masonry heater.

Here are some sites that explain the concept, but more so, show lots of gorgeous pictures of these devices. Granted, a modern, high-tech version could be far smaller and lighter and even more efficient, if designed by an expert.

http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2008/12/tile-stoves.html

http://www.inspirationgreen.com/masonry-heaters.html

http://www.rvharvey.com/kachelofen.htm

What is alien to most Americans is the idea that you are not convection or conduction heating the air, instead you are bathing a room in invisible infrared radiation that heats you, and everything it shines on, quite efficiently.


85 posted on 01/09/2014 1:56:03 PM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy (There Is Still A Very Hot War On Terror, Just Not On The MSM. Rantburg.com)
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To: Marcella

Highlander nucular tea lights.


86 posted on 01/09/2014 1:56:33 PM PST by dangerdoc (I don't think you should be forced to make the same decision I did even if I know I'm right.)
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To: autumnraine

I light 2 tea candles every day and they last 2-2 1/2 hours each.


87 posted on 01/09/2014 1:59:23 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion......the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: autumnraine

I light 2 tea candles every day and they last 2-2 1/2 hours each.


88 posted on 01/09/2014 1:59:23 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion......the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: cripplecreek

When I was in Alaska, 45 years ago, we were told to keep at least TWO cans of STERNO and a STERNO stove in the car in winter.

Blankets, hard candy, stero, matches. Add a sleeping bag and a few plumber’s candles.


89 posted on 01/09/2014 2:04:27 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Sometimes you need 7+ more ammo. LOTS MORE.)
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To: Marcella
The ones the man had burned for 4 hours. He is in England or thereabouts and their tea lights may not be the same as ours.

The length of the candle depends on the composition of the wick and the hardness of the wax. But if he got the candles from IKEA, a Swedish company; in all likelihood we have the same ones. Probably all made in China, though.

90 posted on 01/09/2014 2:08:33 PM PST by Albion Wilde ("Remember... the first revolutionary was Satan."--Russian Orthodox Archpriest Dmitry Smirnov)
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To: bboop

Kerosene lamps are much better than candles. Larger flame, so brighter. Won’t compete with your LEDs, of course. But much better than candles. First thing I go for.


91 posted on 01/09/2014 2:09:12 PM PST by HeadOn (HOLD..... HOLD..... HOLD.....)
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To: Marcella
"tea lights from IKEA!”

Any dollar store has them.


I have not compared my tea lights from IKEA with the tea lights from Dollar Tree, but my above post indicates how they may differ.

92 posted on 01/09/2014 2:10:33 PM PST by Albion Wilde ("Remember... the first revolutionary was Satan."--Russian Orthodox Archpriest Dmitry Smirnov)
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To: miserare

Buy a REAL LANTERN and lamp oil. You will get light and heat.
Lehman’s has a lantern designed with a cooker on top.

https://www.lehmans.com/p-3326-dietz-oil-lantern-cooker.aspx

Several years ago we lost electricity during a real bad ice storm.

For several days all we had to see by was lanterns and kerosene lamps. They do produce a fair amount of heat. Keep a window slightly cracked as they do produce a smell.


93 posted on 01/09/2014 2:13:59 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Sometimes you need 7+ more ammo. LOTS MORE.)
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To: BuffaloJack
I wonder how many people will use those orange plastic flower pots that are made to look like the red clay ones.

LOL!! Every once in awhile you see the vinyl "clapboard" siding next to someone's back door all melted from their charcoal grill too close to the house!

94 posted on 01/09/2014 2:15:14 PM PST by Albion Wilde ("Remember... the first revolutionary was Satan."--Russian Orthodox Archpriest Dmitry Smirnov)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

This kind of information could be taught to our kids via pioneer after school clubs.


95 posted on 01/09/2014 2:16:34 PM PST by cradle of freedom
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To: SoothingDave

***But wouldn’t a light bulb (the old, illegal, incandescent kind)****

Don’t you mean a 100W HEATING bulb to keep baby chicks warm and water pumps from freezing, but is a violation of Federal Law to be used as a light source? ;-D


96 posted on 01/09/2014 2:17:13 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Sometimes you need 7+ more ammo. LOTS MORE.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Sounds like tha same ice storm we had several years ago in New England. We closed off all the rooms that we didn’t need and my hubbie nailed an old blanket to cover the archway to the living room. We also would turn on a gas stove that we have in a basement kitchen, leaving it on for a couple of hours then we would shut it off. Also put a large pot of water on the stove top and simmered it for a couple of hours. It kept the house surprising comfortable.

I like to keep a good supply of canned foods since that experience.


97 posted on 01/09/2014 2:25:50 PM PST by cradle of freedom
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To: cuban leaf

Badum bum! Cuban leaf, ya killin it!


98 posted on 01/09/2014 2:26:16 PM PST by whiterhino
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To: cuban leaf
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.

Spit out my beer on that one...yes...at 4:30 pm.

99 posted on 01/09/2014 2:26:37 PM PST by sayfer bullets (“I didn’t leave the [---] party, the [---] party left me.” - Ronald Reagan)
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To: sayfer bullets

Luckily it’s. 5 o’clock somewhere... Not that you care.


100 posted on 01/09/2014 2:33:10 PM PST by whiterhino
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