Get an infrared lamp, like the ones used for baby chickens. They’re insanely efficient at heating water (ie: your body), just make sure to not leave it on when you’re not there as they are a fire hazard if not properly secured.
250W in infrared lamp heats a person better than a 1500W electric coil space heater can in a shorter period of time due to direct transfer of energy.
When I’ve got clothes layered on, what could use improvement is cold hands. I’m not going to type with gloves on but your suggestion could be a fix if I could mount a heat lamp above my keyboard but in a way that does not obstruct the screen.
(update) It has been done:
https://www.pcgamer.com/the-envavo-heatbuff-is-an-infra-red-lamp-to-keep-your-fingers-warm-as-you-play/The pipes are what you need to worry about. with theiright coat humans are fine to at least -40 bit the pipes freeze and break at much warmer.
How can you prevent mold with no heating?
I tried to heat as little as possible, leaving rooms without heating, and I already can go around hunting down mold on the walls
How can you prevent mold with now heating?
By removing organic material from walls, if possible.
Besides condensation water, the kinds of mold that grow on walls need something organic to feed on. Mold grows on wallpaper because it feeds on the cellulose; in the case of paint, it’s the organic binding agents that do it.
Silicate paint employs mineral binding agents and so mold can’t feed on it. If building a house with “mineral” walls, like bricks or concrete as opposed to wood, using silicate paint may be more expensive upfront but spare trouble in the long run. If renovating a house or apartment with appropriate walls, removing any wallpaper and underlying paint –painstaking as that is– and applying silicate paint should prevent mold growth.
I’m seeing the most mold on the plastic frame of the window. Seems strange that the mold finds food in plastic.
That’s strange indeed. The mold is hopefully not feeding on the window frame, but rather on invisible dirt laying on the surface of the window frame, in which case regular scrubbing (after removing the mold) should keep it from growing again. In any case, I’m sorry you have to deal with that pesky fucker. Mold sucks.
Having said that, plastic eating mold in the wild, damaging as it could become, would be a wonderful discovery.
Plastic is organic. You might be thinking of the food definition ofeorganic not the chemistry definition.
is there any chance you can get solar + battery?
Maybe. But I hesitate because Brussels does not get much sunlight so I would need many panels. At the same time hail storms are common, which would likely reduce the lifetime of PVs.
there are hail resistant solar panels now and batteries really help capture 100% of the solar output but it can be expensive, if you did it today it would be more of a donation to ukraine via yourself
i did it for climate change, i almost never use grid power anymore and i’m installing a co2 hot water heatpump next month
it looks like much bigger and cheaper solar batteries are coming next year from china which will make getting a battery a nonbrainer
20kw for 6k usd? crazy if true
