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I read about how they tried this in the 60s. They quickly found out it doesn't work well. Microwaves heats up liquid water so the people got nice and warm, but
by magicalhippo 1y ago
I read about how they tried this in the 60s.
They quickly found out it doesn't work well. Microwaves heats up liquid water so the people got nice and warm, but not any of the furniture and such.
So the floor would be cold to walk on, the sofa would be cold to sit down in and so on.
- ewoodrich 1y agoNot the same effect exactly but I live in an 70s era apartment with heated ceilings in a couple rooms (which I didn’t even know was a thing). It was a similar experience where initially it seemed great in the winter how quickly a room felt “warm”. But quickly you notice the air itself isn’t as warm which isn’t very pleasant and wait, I’m not feeling “warm” anymore I’m feeling “very hot”. I basically gave up using them after the first winter except turned up sub-perceptually at like 25% just to add a bit of heat input to reduce the days where I need a space heater.
- devilbunny 1y agoInteresting. The piece I read/heard didn't talk about using it instead of heating the house, but as a supplement to allow the whole-home temperature to be substantially lower.
- magicalhippo 1y agoAh yeah that might work better. The one I read about was about having a giant magnetron in the basement, providing whole-house heating. Very 60's thing to try indeed.
- devilbunny 1y agoThis was probably 70s-80s. House heated to 10-15 C/50-60 F and microwave for comfort beyond that.