The thing with conduction is that when you the person moves, they get cold pretty quickly because the air you are now moving through is cold in comparison. Which is why we heat places and not people. If you are going to be sedentary for a time, then conduction plus an extra layer of clothing works just fine. Most home electric heaters at 1,500W are barely acceptable for even a fairly small area. I'm in Canada, so our wall voltage is 120V/60hz, not your 230V/50hz of the UK. I use an oil filled electric radiator set at a 750W to keep my well house from freezing up in the winter months, and nothing but wood heat for my house (2,400 sq ft), at roughly a $150 - $200 a year for as many cords as I can manage to get if I go into the bush and get the wood myself. If I buy it (because I'm getting on for 70, so that's now a distinct possibility), the cost will go up many times for a cord of wood. About $1,000 for three cords split and delivered. Three years ago it was only $125 a cord. 12V will require a battery (to be recharged often for each heater if used concurrently) or a voltage converter (for each heater unit) for wall current. A Canadian made step-down transformer will cost anywhere between $200 and $450 cdn. So this "nano" Carbon fiber cloth puts out a wavelength of 780 nm-1mm? Which is right in the ball park for medical use (700 - 1000 nm). Something I already do...and it works very well, but uses LEDs rather than cloth. The construction of your experimental heater is rather bulky. Do you have a way of it being just as efficient but quite a bit smaller in size? A most interesting video.

I once worked as an R&D technician for an aerospace company, where we were developing aircraft ice protection based on a glass/thermoplastic composites. Our initial resistance method was to metal spray first copper, as the conductor, then overspray that with a nickel based alloy called "Centanin". Later on in the process we were looking at using carbon based inks to spray, or screen print the elements, which was not only quicker, but much finer definition. This was proposed as a way to heat some, temperature critical components "locally" rather than a whole assembly.......then cane the 2008 banking debacle........you can guess the rest...☹️

That would be a great insert into a sand battery for heat storage. Some where in the northern hemisphere there is someone rubbing their hands together to keep warm, wondering why you didn't mention friction heating. LOL. You are an amazing teacher.

Infra red heaters are popular in the construction industry for drying out plaster, paintwork and after water ingress for example. I presume because of the lower power consumption and less chance of a fire when left unattended.

Heh. Growing up in Houston, I am used to living in a swamp. 80-90% of all heat transfer in a swap is via convection as the humid air passes heat from surfaces exposed to the sun to everywhere else. The first time I went into the desert, visiting a friend in Las Vegas, was educational. I played it up for my friends back home, but being cooled by evaporation of sweat into still air and noticeably warmed by exposure to sun and cooled by shade were honestly novel experiences for me.

I like the longer style explaining and then actually getting down to it. Makes for a nice change. Having them separate isn't conducive to learning.

This should be an absolute boon for car camping, etc... I've been experimenting with a 250watt infrared bulb I used to keep my chickens warm with. I like the idea of 72 watts much better. Excellent. Thank you.

Looks like a fun project! Thanks, and best wishes to you!

Robert Murray Smith the hero of brits this winter!

Thank You Robert for such a great channel, where people can discuss science and great ideas..

A lot of these videos are ingenious and enjoyable to watch, but I think the same message can be learned from all of them, i.e., if you're a single-parent family or senior citizens living in high flats or tennement buildings there simply are no heaters available to heat your home that won't cost you a fortune to run.

A Big Thank You. Will be using 'this' as the basis to solve a long standing heating 'problem' that I've been struggling to find a solution for. Brilliant - just brilliant!

Great video, learnt a lot from this so thanks for that, will definitely be looking into this type of heater

Every time I watch your videos. Same reaction everytime WOW!! I really appreciate your knowledge you share with us all. Thank you so much. Good work 👍😄

That's awesome Mr.Smith! 👍👍

Thanks, this would be great for off grid or even camping.

Sir, your ideas are very useful! I am very happy following you, that is very inspirational for me.Thank you be health!

Love this. Your videos are so interesting and inspiring! 😊 thank you.

Brilliant! Aside, on this side of the pond we pronounce tow as would toe. Keep it up Rob!

Hello Robert, I sit in a folding law chair in my home sitting on a heating pad. I wear a warm coat, cover up my head, and add a blanket over my legs. This keeps me very warm with a small consumption of electricity. Only my nose gets cold.

Warming people is obviously the logical answer. However, in the UK for a variety of reasons including: Aging housing stock, cheap construction standards, clothes drying and legacy industry subsidence issues.... we as a nation have terrible damp problems. We need to heat property's for comfort AND to keep the damp at bay

I camped with a conductive heater. Actually 2 car seat heaters, running on a 12v marine battery. Drew about 70 watts, kept me toasty warm all night. Was in the 20's F outside.

Knowing you have a bit of a penchant for all things carbon, this is exactly why I suggested this one the other day mate, glad to see this video, really been looking forward to it (although I didn't expect it would involve sewing!). Still got a tonne of your conductive ink lying around here from previous experiments, so keen to see anything that involves that too. I wonder if low voltage infra red wallpaper could be a possibility even! Infra red hearers really are a bit more unusual which always keeps me interested! Thanks as always for your informative and helpful work!

Robert you rock man! Im gonna give this a shot!

Another fascinating video. Thank you.

*i've already built a methanol heater in a baked bean can* *first 2 lasted under a hour the third one using a metal toilet brush holder as a grill* *lasted 3 hours and 15 mins so i'm delighted*

so I could use this in my Igloo!! perfect!!

Hello Robert I am sitting here in the southern antipodes ( sub tropical NSW) and wiping perspiration from my brow - watching your very inspiring channel …again. We are heading into another hot and humid summer! So your IR heater will possibly be shelved until we do some caravanning into the outback next winter! 😬 I’m working on a satellite (foiled) dish solar heater atm - also very keen on your rocket heater design…. Which would be great on the desert where firewood is very scarce. Cheers and thankyou Ian

Thank you for this. It's a really interesting idea. I'd like to release an idea of mine for personal heating: A hotwater bottle papoose to hold a hot water bottle over the core and heat that therefore the rest of the body. You have a better reach than I do to get this info out and help those who can't afford to, to stay warm this winter.

Still love the ink wall heater from long ago.. gotta ton of what I think is graphene in powder format Can't wait to get your book on conductive inks Love the channel

Two thoughts. 1) if you put the slotted holes at the bottom, the weight of the firebrick will tighten the carbon ribbon. 2) A 12 volt system means that you can run this with a solar panel in an off grid situation or run it off a deep cycle marine battery. Question on the Ugrinsky turbine; will that work in the same way a screw turbine works?

Next time you pass by your scrapper, grab a few diesel glow plugs. They can get your motor block heated up enough in a few seconds, they should be fine as "radiator" maybe stuck in a metal plate.. or to heat a sand battery (metal rod) with intermittent solar/grid power.

Fantastic video! 👍

Great video

Moose from Minnesota live in Frostbite Falls , Bullwinkle , and his Buddy Rocky , the Flying Chicken of the Tree !

Nano-awesome! 👏

Nichrome wrapped around ceramic rods with a curved reflector is easier. we used to strip toasters of their heating elements before vaping wire and the controller chips were easily available. Ready-made 'Clapton' wire seems to work the best for us.

Another fantastic video thank you (hope those kids are watching now). Question, could you use the carbon material you used as a wick ?

This is great, may build one. We have electric baseboard (skirting board) heaters, our power is from hydro on Vancouver Island Canada. I keep a couple of different types of heaters for when (a few times of year, storms etc) the power goes out (hours to days - out of town lol) and we are on generator power. However, in humid places if you don't heat the air and have some fresh air that also gets heated, mould sets in pretty quickly. I like the diesel heater idea, but diesel/heating oil is more expensive than petrol. I like a lot of the other oil and rocket heaters, the coolest is the "safety" heater you made. 👍😎

Thoughts on the topic: Especially in rooms you also need warm/dry air. A infrared heater in the end also heats everything and the air, but if you are cozy warm in the direct exposure you might reduce the overall room temp too much and get humidity and mold in corners and behind objects. Cabinets. Everything not directly hit stays a lot colder. Special radiator paint actually radiates more IR than normal paint, even the white one. The quarz tube heaters are "better" over this because of the higher temperature they run at. The units come in 2 or 3 power setting modes up to 2100W with a bit of variance for the single tubes from 500W to 750W. (Will of course need a inverter and lots of Amps at 12V/24V) I dont know the spare part value of a single tube because in over 30 years i never had a single broken one. If you buy a complete unit with 2 or 3 tubes it costs around 35 to 60 bucks. So i'd assume 15 bucks or less for a single tube. As a reference to get a mid sized bathroom (2.5m from from door to tub) normal/cold to cozy after showering a 750W quarz tube is enough. (Dont forget the shower/tub also brings in heat) The IR heater mounted above the door and you really feel the heat. The basic room heating still done by the radiator. Now instead of the carbon i would be interested in a low voltage"glowing" version, made by cutting apart the resistive wire in a 230V AC version. You can get them for 20 bucks. If you cut the wire into more then 10 pieces you are in the area of 24V volts. I will need to check if the resistive wire i have for making resistors already dies when glowing (oxidization). Temperature expansion between hot/cold also might be an issue. Other options: normal resistors get up to 85°C at their rated load, so too low for good radiation. Halogen light bulbs /car might work at 75W each, you dont really want the light but they are really cheap, maybe paint them red.. i dont know if they break if you coat them with matte black.

you've just essentially created a heater that could technically run off of USB type c and if you attached a sand battery to that with a copper thermal distribution pipe, you could have a very nice creation. thermal pipe is copper pipe with a wick inside and 15% water or acetone to the length of the pipe. If you boil the liquid from the closed end until vapor shows, you quickly close and seal the opening and let it cool. you now have a vacuum sealed pipe that can near instantly transfer heat across to where you want it to go like a wire for heat.

Nano nano. Isn't that a Mork from Ork greeting?😁

Hello Robert, Here in the U.S.A. I purchased on line at A****n Prime a round 24 inch tower graphite glass tube infrared heater which is low cost about 79 U.S. now ( I paid 52 U.S. last winter). This graphite in a glass tube heater is low power which pulls 210 watts 120V AC 60Hz on Low and 420 watts 120V AC 60Hz on High. My retired resistive heater was pulling 900 watts 120V AC 60Hz on Low and 1,500 watts 120V AC 60 Hz on High. This heater used a lot of electricity KW and the cord of this heater got very hot, which was a fire concern, not so with the graphite in a tube vertical stand heater. This efficient heater cord is always cold to the touch. Setting on my fireplace hearth when not in use, I shine the very hot narrow infrared vertical beam produced by this efficient heater onto the side of a standing upright 6" Diameter X 24 " Long vitrified orange clay round flue liner. Standing the round clay flue liner on a couple fire brick allows space to have cold floor air draft by convection into the bottom of the round flue liner and heated air to drift out the top of the chimney liner warmed by the very efficient graphite in a glass tube infrared heater basking the clay flue liner's outer surface. Later I added a 4 inch 13 watt 120V AC 60 Hz metal desk fan to nest between the base bricks with the prop facing up to the ceiling pushing air up and out of the 6 '' clay flue liner pipe. This configuration blows quietly the warm air across the sheet rock ceiling here radiating and adding thermal mass to balance the room's heat. I use a reptile thermostat with a remote digital heat sensing bulb to control room temp to within one degree, which makes for an efficient stable room heater providing comfort for less money turning on and off as up/down outdoor temperatures chill the room. Hope this easy to assemble design helps save others on heating costs, offers safer heating and provides comfort. David from Freeland, Maryland U.S.A.

THX Sir! as I got input from your very inspiring videos I think over a cheap Powerstove with a 25kg Sandbuffer insulated and and top a n output for warm air or direct to a Peltier😎 thinking of the poor an freezing

Wow robert that's amazing and great tech I can't keep up with you inventions lol great vide what to build next lol working in the rocket heater

I have a heated gilet/vest which I had to fix last week (cable separated from the power button). I'm pretty certain it's using carbon threads like this woven into a couple of pads to generate the heat. Seems like it probably wouldn't be terribly difficult to make some pads yourself if you have that carbon thread stuff (can't remember what you called it EDIT: carbon fibre tow), sew them into any clothing, and just attach them to a USB power bank. After checking the resistance etc and making sure they can't get too hot. If you have the threads at the correct resistance in parallel on each pad then one failing shouldn't affect the maximum contact temperature I believe?

I always thought it was 'tow' as in pulling a trailer, rather than 'tow' as in rhymes with 'cow'. Excellent video for a simple demonstration of V=IR.

(I come back again!) We can also make a lactoserum dryer with it to harvest whey protein for a low cost of energy. Industries throw a lot of it. We can make a bucket with many layers of that carbon sheet inside (isolated for security & for the elctric current doesn't damage the food & the equipment) so that lactoserum is captures into thin warm layers oh carbon heater. That way it will dry fast for a small amount of energy. And at the end we get that precious protein powder supply! And of course we can just make a box like the oven to dry fruits & vegetables. For the one who get lots of tomatoes feom their garden in summer i guess that's a much easier way to conserve them for winter than by cooking it and storing it in jars.

Robert must be cold....He's always building heaters...🤪👍

I made a 10 watt heated jacket using by sewing in nano carbon fibre strips and power with a usb powerbank. I dont use it though as it just makes more sense to dress correctly.

Shazbot! Mork from Ork would be proud.

look kids!! he has safety glasses sometimes but you, you always

Cool, between sorel cement and your conductive ink, you could make an infrared heater any size or shape you like 😁. Can't wait to see where you take this!

💜👍💜👍clever stuff👍👍👍

nano nano, that brought back childhood memories, or was it nanu nanu?

I love it! when are you going to make me a heated couch???

If you want an excellent IR Heater, get the parabolic IR heater from harbor freight. I used to use that thing to train Kung Fu up in a very frigid attic, in the middle of the winter. The attic had almost no insulation... and so you could see your breath, if it got cold enough up there. Normal space heaters, couldnt work hard or fast enough, to heat the attic, nor the people within it. But the dish IR Heater, would easily heat your dark clothing and skin, even as much as 12 to 15ft away from it. Im talking a very Toasty level of warmth.. to the point where it almost felt uncomfortable at times. To help with that, I set it on the auto-swivel mode... which also helped heat the others I was training with up there.

Would using this long strip of carbon be multiplied using an array of strips increase the life expectancy Robert ??? Maybe using this idea for making an electric furnace home heater ?? Seems like these days we all have to combine our ideas for the good of mankind. Lets face it, keeping warm in the winter time is a very good thing, period.

Very inspiring encouragement Robert ! Thank you truly. You cleverly leave us more curious and inventive. However, your mouth contraption failed to prove this emits infrared. Please define the specific Nano-meter wavelength that your heater contraption emits. Is it possible a simple spectrometer can reveal the specific wavelenths. I am looking for NIR and FIR types to be worthwile for continuing health in the dark winter months. Thoughts about this as a challenge?

Ah, now I'm beginning to understand why some Radiant heater manufacturers' products start at $400-600 for their base units. Part materials (carbon fiber) and part to be able to enter the market as 'Premium" products (like Dyson).

Best clickbait ever, thanks.

Do you think silicate carbon mesh would work?I use it for sanding drywall ,it looks the same.

Happiness is a toasty behind.

Nice work unlce Robert you are hero thank you for this nice idea love you

Excellent video and good idea Looking at carbon weave there are soooo many to choose from 🤔 What size, thickness etc is your strip of carbon weave please? Or do you have a link to purchase the same? Keep up the good work 👍

I'd welcome some ideas how to keep water pipes from freezing without heating the whole space. We've tried the electric heating coils/wires, but we live in an area where the electricity goes out often. Thanks!

When in HVAC school i learned that a heat pump (with the evaporator coil buried about a foot "below frost point" under ground) can be actually above 100% efficient ! This will usually be "forced air"convection heat , or .. one could im-bedd the condenser coil in a stained black or dark brown concrete floor, this would be a little infrared , a little conductive / it would make nice toasty feet , and convective since heated air rises also ... ... but most efficient indeed. As a child when ever i visited my friends house it was totally comfortable even in worst part of winter his home was a heated concrete floor, and my home was always cool and drafty with cold feet no matter what... we had base board heated water system. Keep those feet warm.

Might it be worthwhile to use the heater unit from an electric hot water tank to demonstrate the sand battery?

Wouldn't there be a third option to heat yourself up? Insulation. But some clothes on the bioreactor, that is you, and voila! 😆🤣

from rainwater generator straight to nano carbon infra red heater, this channel is like a box of chocolates, you don't quite know what you're going to get next LOL

I would like to see you make an infra red panel heater 240v, maybe using alco panel sign writing panel as a basis- 3mm polypropylene with 0.24mm aluminium skin either side?

10:00 P.M. exactly in Michigans Upper Peninsula ,

Three other types of heating for you, increase circulation ie go for a brisk walk, T.E.F ie Thermic effect of food (eat a big protein based meal) and lastly tricking the body's perception of the temperature level. The latter can be done by slightly warming areas of the body such as the wrist, where there are lots of nerve endings involved with sensing temperature, warming these parts of the body tricks the nervous system into thinking you are warmer than you are. There is a commercial device available which does this. I forget the name, but it looks like a wristwatch. So you could add "biohacking" as another form of heating.😂

When snowmobiling at high speeds , if the choice is Deer or Moose , I choose Moose ! If timed right , you drive right underneath them , but Deer don’t run you down and kick your ass ! Moose might !

Wonder if the ir given off could illuminate an area for a security camera

I always appreciate the conductive method of an electric blanket. Unfortunately that does nothing for my uninsulated pipes. Thay also dont have that pipe tape that electricly warms a pipe to just above freezing.

Fantastic,I wish I understood physics. Are these the mini room heaters I keep getting adverts for on KZfaq?

The frequency of light......nano bs......love u man

Swann was 10 years in advance...not a lot of people know that. So,this is these little gizmos that we see? So they're genuine? Wow...that shocks me...seriously !

his coffee mugs looks like they could use a good clean up.🙂

This seems like it could be used for an infrared sauna.

I have been at a nudist camp on new years day, its sunny, you feel hot, but go in the shade and brrrrr its cold. Interestingly you feel colder with clothes on than without when in the winter sunshine.

Adding a wind generator kinda makes it free additive heat

FWIW, the most efficient way to heat PEOPLE is to maintain their torso at 30C/85F or above. If that is achieved, then the brain thinks that the air temperature is just fine and doesn't start restricting blood flow to the extremities to keep the central part of your body warm enough, which is why your hands/feet start feeling cold *LONG* before the rest of you does. If you used the carbon fiber to make an electric vest to warm your torso directly, that would be brilliant! (I watched a science video a few decades ago where a subject was given dexterity tests--placing nuts on bolts/etc.--in a -10C/13F chamber. While the electrically heated vest he was wearing kept his core temperature up, he was just fine, not even needing to wear gloves. Within two minutes of turning it off, however, he started fumbling, and found doing the tests almost impossible after five minutes or so. Fascinating stuff!)

Conduction is great, heat goes from hot to cold, I live mid terrace, by keeping my house a bit colder than my neighbours, the pensioners on either side of my house are heating my house. Except when I turn the Chinese Diesel heater on, which blasts air through the cat flap, then it gets hot, handy for drying laundry. My last gas bill for heating, hot water and cooking was less than £100.

Could you show us how to make the sauna type infra red heater? Possibly with temp. Controls??🙂

I am loving your videos. Do I understand this correctly: the ducting behind the carbon fibre is warmed by the radiation, and then heats the air by convection like a radiator? Also, if you put ducting in front of the carbon will that make it more efficient as a radiator? Thinking for a greenhouse application, to heat the air at night. Also do you think you could do a video on how to extract heat from the sand battery like you talked about, with a sterling engine?

Love the videos. I'm in England and want to beat this energy con. I would love to know the cheapest way to warm a room but with the lowest volts. I've been using a 12v connected to a water heater element for years in my pond during the winter and it gets to about 30°c (not the water) so how do we multiply that to actually warm a room? Or can it not be done. I saw 100 metres of carbon wire for floor heating for £30, so would this be ok to stuff in a sand battery?

You could have used a quarts rod and have everybody forget about carbon. With a reflector a quarts rod is very efficient and feels really hot on your skin. It is a shorter wavelength but manufacturers make these in affordable sizes and they use 400-800 Watts.

Hi! What do you think about solar air heater? I would like to have some suggestions from you Sir! Tha nks a lot, awesome channel!

Have searched all over where did the steel conduit come from and what size is it? Thanks

..wondering if your carbon felt would work too?

honestly all your video titles read like something some clickbaity youtuber would write "amazing invention, scientists discover..." in front of keep up the awesome work

oh yea its LOUD!

Maybe we should heat up some water, which will hold a lot of energy, add some tasty stuff to it .... and drink it. That would heat from the inside out.

Are you going to connect a solar panel or wind gen to it instead of a battery?

I'm quite hot on IR emission. Do you have any notes that indicate the emission spectra for this type of heater? I've seen larger commercial panels (4'x3', 4'x2', etc.). I can't imagine commercially manufactured panels converting to DC - added cost, complexity, etc. I'm assuming that they do a much thinner fiber (higher resistance) or a serpentine path (longer path, higher resistance) or both. DC wouldn't have EMF, but AC units would. You mentioned adding a reflector behind it... Any polished/ reflective surface? I'm interested in the IR for health benefits. Most research is in red, near IR under PBM - photobiomodulation. There are lots of references in PubMed on visual and near IR wavelengths.

Lets say we placed the carbon weave inside a copper pipe, and vacuum sealed it. If we then let it get to 400 degrees, could we use this to heat the copper and let the copper conductively heat a sand battery to high temps? Could this be as safe as the water bottle resistor? I would think it would be faster, at least.

Hi, could i ask please... I have one of these in a bulb configuration. Could i use a 20A dimmer or fan speed control to "turn it down"....? Thanks in advance Jason.

I was thinking that one could make several of these powered by your artificial muscle radiators, and using the vibration cause by such things as the changing temperatures of the heating of the room, the movement of people, or whatever to warm yourself for free forever.