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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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.
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+.
“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.
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.
Highlander nucular tea lights.
I light 2 tea candles every day and they last 2-2 1/2 hours each.
I light 2 tea candles every day and they last 2-2 1/2 hours each.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
This kind of information could be taught to our kids via pioneer after school clubs.
***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
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.
Badum bum! Cuban leaf, ya killin it!
Spit out my beer on that one...yes...at 4:30 pm.
Luckily it’s. 5 o’clock somewhere... Not that you care.
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