Heat people, not spaces (2015)
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Heat people, not spaces (2015)
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Re: Heat people, not spaces (2015)
#2Idea: Divert some CPU generated heat to the keyboard and wrist rest of a laptop. Code outside in any season.
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#3It took me a bit of pondering the duotone design, when it hit me. "Hey it's that solar-powered website!"
Really cool to see the article, thank you. The leather hooded chair in particular caught my eye, what a find.
Reading one of the follow-on articles I appreciated the idea about opening the windows for hopefully-improved air quality being more of a doable thing with localized heat, since the air is not the primary heat transfer medium anyway.[1]
Thanks for posting!
1. https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2015/03/local-heating.html
Re: Heat people, not spaces (2015)
#4One approach that's been considered: https://awesci.com/microwave-room-heater/
Then there's the Active Denial System: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Denial_System
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#5Idea: Divert some CPU generated heat to the keyboard and wrist rest of a laptop. Code outside in any season.
But if it always does that, it messes up the heat sink's efficiency when you're indoors and warm.
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#6We take the general concept of heating people, not the space, to heart for our outdoor swimming pool. While most other folks heat their pool, we go ahead and swim in the cold water... but we buy everyone in the family a wetsuit. A few hundred dollars on wetsuits each year is far better than many hundreds on propane every month.
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#7My main concern is frozen pipes, other cold related damage to my home. Gets quite cold up here in Minneapolis.
Lovely design ideas for a cabin though where the infrastructure is inherently more limited.
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#10I much prefer having the whole house heated. I have read about Japanese using this concept and it always sounds horrible.
I don't think it is even too horrible as long as there is proper insulation in place and technology used makes sense.