11 November 2013, 10:41,
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River Song
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Heating a Room for 8p per day
I THINK this just about fits in the power generation category but if mods want to move it thats fine.
How to heat a room for 8p per day using four candles and a couple of terracotta pots
http://www.permaculture.co.uk/videos/hea...-pence-day
and just in case anyone of a certain age mentions 'four candles' ...........
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCbvCRkl_4U
Enjoy
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11 November 2013, 12:50,
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RE: Heating a Room for 8p per day
thanks RS
very similar to the plant pot space heater that S13 posted a while back but even simpler (no need to bolt the pots together)
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11 November 2013, 12:56,
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RE: Heating a Room for 8p per day
I found that simple and cleaver too,..thanks
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11 November 2013, 13:42,
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RE: Heating a Room for 8p per day
We do that all the time in our breezy National Trust cottage, it works surprisingly well
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11 November 2013, 17:33,
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Grumpy Grandpa
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RE: Heating a Room for 8p per day
(11 November 2013, 10:41)River Song Wrote: I THINK this just about fits in the power generation category but if mods want to move it thats fine.
How to heat a room for 8p per day using four candles and a couple of terracotta pots
http://www.permaculture.co.uk/videos/hea...-pence-day
Boy! That one must have spread like wildfire - their site's crashed due to 'unprecedented traffic'!
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11 November 2013, 18:48,
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RE: Heating a Room for 8p per day
A candle flame produces about 15W of heat
I can't follow the link to confirm what sort of candle they showing (As the link is down at the minute) but a typical tea-light candle lasts for about 3 hours
So four of them would produce 3 * 4 * 15 = 180Wh
Which is the same amount of heat you'd get from a fan heater running for 5 minutes.
So certainly they produce heat but they won't make much of a dent in a big space.
You'd need it to be a very small room if you wanted to feel much difference.
By contrast an inactive person produces about 100W of heat just sitting still (Reading a book or using a computer) and potentially much more if they’re actively doing something.
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11 November 2013, 23:12,
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RE: Heating a Room for 8p per day
(11 November 2013, 10:41)River Song Wrote: I THINK this just about fits in the power generation category but if mods want to move it thats fine.
How to heat a room for 8p per day using four candles and a couple of terracotta pots
http://www.permaculture.co.uk/videos/hea...-pence-day
and just in case anyone of a certain age mentions 'four candles' ...........
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCbvCRkl_4U
Enjoy
Have built three of these, two small and on large, they are great. Funnily enough I actually watched that 2 ronnies clip the other day
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12 November 2013, 07:40,
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RE: Heating a Room for 8p per day
Pretty impressive economically.
And there was me feeling proud of our frugality of having discovered a source of slow burn compressed sawdust briquettes that give us heat, hot water and cooking for around £ 1.50 per day.......
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12 November 2013, 08:56,
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RE: Heating a Room for 8p per day
(12 November 2013, 07:40)Lightspeed Wrote: Pretty impressive economically.
And there was me feeling proud of our frugality of having discovered a source of slow burn compressed sawdust briquettes that give us heat, hot water and cooking for around £ 1.50 per day.......
:-(
lol,.. we have used these for he past two years
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12 November 2013, 09:37,
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RE: Heating a Room for 8p per day
(12 November 2013, 07:40)Lightspeed Wrote: And there was me feeling proud of our frugality of having discovered a source of slow burn compressed sawdust briquettes that give us heat, hot water and cooking for around £1.50 per day.......
That's actually pretty impressive!
Our solar set up pretty good at heating up some water and I'm quite happy putting an extra sweater on and eating cold food but, alas, the rest of the family doesn't quite see it that way...
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