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Hot water bottles or cloth bags filled with dry rice and heated in a microwave are both excellent ways to stay warm very inexpensively.
by prometheus76 4y ago
Hot water bottles or cloth bags filled with dry rice and heated in a microwave are both excellent ways to stay warm very inexpensively.
- skyfaller 4y agoLow-Tech Mag also recently advocated for hot water bottles: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2022/01/the-revenge-of-the-hot-water-bottle.html https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2022/01/the-revenge-of-the... I acquired and used hot water bottles for the first time in my life last winter and I highly recommend giving them a shot, especially when seated outdoors. In terms of heat storage for a given volume, water seems very hard to beat: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_specific_heat_capacities https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_specific_heat_capacit... It seems likely that for containers of equal size, water will stay warmer longer than dry rice or any other common/inexpensive material. EDIT: I occasionally hear of engineers working on materials that work better than water, but they don't seem to be catching on so far, perhaps because water works really well and is comparatively cheap: https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/130523-zeolite-thermal-storage-retains-heat-indefinitely-absorbs-four-times-more-heat-than-water https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/130523-zeolite-thermal-s...
- ryukafalz 4y agoAfter reading their post on hot water bottles a while back I went out and got some, and I’m glad I did! They actually are very comfy in the winter. This is something I’d somehow never really encountered and it’s super simple.