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This is an awesome, cost efficient, heating solution that’ll warm your room on a few burning candles. This will reduce your heating bill without making you wear multiple layers of clothes. It goes without saying though there is always a hazard when having candles burning in your home, so if you have kids or pets you might want to find a more secure way to make those candles stick where they are.
To make this project all you need is a couple of terracotta flower pots with their bases, some nuts, and a chain link. The end product is stylish despite using raw material, but you gotta keep in mind that these are candles and keep them away from any furniture or flammable material.
I hope you like this project, watch the video below.
Note: I tried this method and found that could work in small areas like a tent or if you want to warm up your feet by keepin them close to it but wouldn’t work for a big room. However in case of power outage this knowledge may come in real handy if you only have electric heaters.
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and $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ to replace your burned down home
Info you should know= these are a waste of time unless you live in a very small studio, and even if , youll need at least 6 not 2.
Rosalie Carson
(From quora)
Looking at Amazon, I see that tea candles are a wax cylinder about 1.5 inches in diameter and * 0.5 inches tall. Volume of a cylinder is pi * r**2 * h = 0.883 cubic inches or 14.45 cm**3. The density of paraffin wax is 0.9 g/cm**3, so we’re looking at 13.03 grams of wax. The energy content of paraffin is about 42 kJ/g, so we’re looking at 547kJ. There are 0.277 watt-hours per kJ, so we’ve got about 152 watt hours.
If you’re looking for the power, the amazon tea candles claim 4-5 hours, so 152 watt hours / 4.5 hours or about 33.8 watts on average. It would take just over 42 tea candles to match the thermal output of a 1440 watt space heater (12A at 120V).
(End From Quara)
Space heater running for an hour by comparison, depending on where you live costs about 17 cents (once again depends on where you live, sorry hawaii renewable energy is not cheap, it is over 40 cents there). Burning 42 candles per hour at $13.95 for 125 means it is roughly 11 cents a candle, they last 4.5 hours so.. calculate the cost to meet a space heater at…
((13.95/125)*42)/4.5= 1.04$ per hour to heat at the same a 17 cents an hour space heater…. And you don’t have the soot or fire risk.
It takes 3 of those same candles under one pot to feel any warmth at all a few inches away from the pot. We tried this last winter…
You could use larger candles, and more pots, I’ll bet just a little heat when the powers off beats no heat!
Not new and they tend to shater violently.
Leslie Alison
People do burn candles in their home every day
Very few do it for heat, because it doesn’t work.
Basic physics: you can’t get more energy out of a system than you put in. What this MIGHT do is take a long time to warm up the pots from the candles, then take some time to radiate that heat into the room… a couple inches. But final result is that there will be no more heat produced than the heat from the candles. You might have a handwarmer, not much more.
Derrick Fugate Edna Fund
yeah, they look cool, but doesn’t produce enough heat, also caused CO2 build up if no air circulation.
Omg. NOOOOO!
I thought this crap idea had been debunked enough to stop going around.
Every winter it comes around
A great source of indoor air pollution!
Dwayne Bergman
Iv showed you silly!!
Oh oops lol
plus that’s not enough flame to heat anything lol
One of the dumbest things I’ve ever seen.
Envi heaters claim to only cost 4 cents a hour to heat.. i would rather have that.. acually i have 3 of them in the house
Absolute nonsense.
20.00 to refill a propane tank. Team that with a turkey burner or my buddy heater and you have a real solution.
Paulette Fallon
This “heater” *cannot* create any more heat than those lights all by themselves make. The candles also have a cost. There is no free ride here. Since you are now using candles to heat, their cost needs to be added to the heating bill, and in order to have a proper comparison, you’ll need to heat the room to the same temperature as a space heater or central air. The candles lose, big time.
Fake news.