personal-directed heat through lightbulb replacements -- neat inexpensive idea?

Started by Darren Dirt, June 12, 2019, 02:32:01 PM

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Darren Dirt

https://permies.com/t/4906//making-electric-heat#49800
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Here is the biggest bump I've had so far this winter. 

I took two reptile heaters and put them into desk lamps and set them up to shine on me and my keyboard.  Temps in the house today were around 53 degrees, but it felt like 72. 

Here is what the heater looks like.  It's a ceramic thing*** that goes into a regular light bulb socket.  60 watts each.




Below is a pic of my setup.  I got the lamps for free from a friend that was going to throw them away. 

They kinda point at my hands and kinda point at my chest.  I can feel the warmth on my face.


Above linked post might be a helpful idea for some of you (Tom?) today even if it was from 8 or 9 years ago -- back when CFBs were being forced on us and inexpensive and (bonus!) heat-producing incandescent bulbs were being banned everywhere.

Thank God today we accelerated to LED bulbs at a reasonable consumer-level price and without the toxic powder of easily-breakable fluorescent bulbs.


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found via "saving energy by heating the person instead of the whole house" https://richsoil.com/electric-heat.jsp
( so random I even found that, it was an intriguin simple text-only link in a thread about Java classpath headaches and stuff https://coderanch.com/t/651914/java/class-getResource-returning-null )
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Darren Dirt

Reading more of the Permies forum -- what a way of life that would feel so alien to most of us, and yet is much closer to nature/natural than our present day-to-day...

Forget "tiny houses", how about "underground houses" -- but not the cold dark damp kind, more like a protected log cabin.

"W.O.F.A.T.I."
https://richsoil.com/wofati.jsp






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