For me the bike wouldn't help me much, I'd have to have the energy go to another part of the house to heat it. I ride my bike in the winter and no matter how cold it is I sweat like crazy so I'd want it as cold as possible in the room I'm riding in.
You somehow forgot to mention that it is not enough to put that soapstone in the oven, you also have to turn it on, and that might ruin your concept of not depending on gas or electricity
The terracotta pot space heaters have shown to be wrong, I was fooled by them too over a decade ago. You're best off having the candles heating the room freely instead of wasting the heat heating the pot which will then radiate less heat out in to the room. Other's who can explain the physics of heat and thermal conductivity have explained it better than me in videos here on RU-vid.
I've made the toilet paper heater and you need to remove the hard paper core first. Also, the candle heaters do not work very well. First, you cannot violate the First Law of Thermodynamics as a candle can only give off a given much heat. Instead of directing the heat to one narrow point, they absorb the heat and then radiate it but it takes time to heat up and can only produce the heat inside any given candle. But, they have their purpose. And, be careful as they can be be spilled or knocked over. Peace Ya'll.
what candles were you using? I tried it with 6 candles and 3 pots, the room is freezing and I've had to use the wife's frozen body as a door draft excluder
When the old man was fighting in the North African Desert. They'd take a large bully beef tin, cut off the lid, fill with sand, add petrol. There you are instant cook fire. Don't know how good they are for heating, but I've made similar with lamp oil, flavourless.
Basic thermodynamics. You will get exactly the same heat from three candles whether you add clay pots or not. There is no material known to man that will change that. The only thing you get with clay pots in the mix is more danger of the fire getting out of control.
If you add clay pots soaked in kerosine it will amplify the heat from the candles and if you set your room on fire with the candles you will definitely be toasty warm for a while...
The only advantage I can think of is keeping the heat in an area rather than spreading throughout the whole room. Sitting right next to it might feel warmer than just letting the heat from the candle rise to the ceiling away from you.
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I've tried using that terra cotta pot method. It didn't do anything as far as providing any heat for my small space with low ceiling. but it looks nice.
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Alcohol stoves with alcohol, they work but u gotta keep an eye on them. Once that flame goes out, your gonna have a serious amount of fumes, I know from, experience, im in my 60,s, them Terry cotta ones , u gotta keep a eye on them too. Cuz they have a tendency for the pot to break,
That’s wrong, you put one nickel day1, two nickels, day 2, three nickels, day 3, ect, day 364 you put 364 nickels in and 365 in the last day then you will have over 3 thousand dollars all in nickels, in Britain it’s called the penny challenge, at the end of the penny challenge you will have just short of £670 saved, not too bad. 😊
sorry, but that terracotta pot heater is just stupid.. candles bring exactly the same amount of heat in the room, with or without the pots, because they dont have chimney...
You can not produce more heat by using a candle (or anything else) to heat up a clay pot! The candle will only produce so much heat! I'm trying to break this down to the lowest common denominator. These so called "clay pot" heaters do NOT produce heat. Whatever heat the candle is putting out and transferring to the pot would have transferred out to the space directly and the end result is the SAME. These heaters do NOT WORK.
Eight winters ago I bought a oil-filled heater, big mistake. It stopped functioning after three weeks. So I had it replaced, same thing. I can't say enough about how an infrared heater works so good. The oil-filled heater was a Honeywell.
I've been using an oil filled heater for probably over 15 years and it works great even after one of the wheels broke off. At one point I lived in a tiny apartment and it kept the entire place heated (tolerable). I bought it at Walmart for probably 20-40 dollars.
The only image of south Dakota was the birdsview of a 1950s mid-western american town... The rest is all european... European heater models, interior design, the rooms and the accent of the narrator. And, honestly, the info is incredibly basic, no gems that would change my first impression in understanding the differences between oil and coiled electric heaters. I am sure most living in North Dakota know the difference as well.
Here’s the real truth you can’t heat a room or dwelling with a device that can’t achieve a decent btu output at minimum to heat one room in 20f temps you will need at least 25000 btu output can’t do this with a few candles let alone several hundred. Also you cannot increase or double btu output in any physical way I’m aware of.
