A DIY Heater Could Keep Homeless People Warm in Winter. For 7 Dollars?

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A DIY Heater Could Keep Homeless People Warm in Winter. For 7 Dollars?
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The alcohol-based heaters are tent-safe. 🤔 engineering

Headlined"Heater Bloc’s Guide to Building a Tent-Safe Copper Coil Alcohol Heater", the guide gives detailed instructions and the equipment needed for the build. What's great about the unit is that it costs only about seven dollars each when all components are purchased beforehand and it can be used in small indoor spaces for hours. How do they work? The heater's burner uses nothing but fumes from the alcohol fuel.

hole at the bottom of the copper loop . These fumes then combust as soon as they exit and hit the open flame which then heats the top of the copper loop. The alcohol fumes will keep burning until the flow is interrupted by tipping it sideways or blowing the flame out like a candle. The ingenious heaters can be used for both cooking and heating and if it tips over, its flame automatically burns out. As long as there's proper ventilation, the risk of carbon monoxide poisoning is minimal as well due to isopropyl alcohol's clean combustion. members of HeaterBloc said that"The project wasn’t something new, it was developed over the years, in many different forms." and that"It starts off with an idea, then that idea is built upon.

“It's hard to convey to the average person what it feels like to be unhoused in the winter,” wrote the HeaterBloc members in their statement. “An inescapable coldness that fills your lungs with ice and numbs your limbs. A damp cold that exhausts your body, one that you’d do anything to escape.

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