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Elsewhere, the possibility has been mooted of using huskies,
treated with a mitochondrial uncoupler so that the make more
heat, to warm a room. Ultimately, though, the limit will be
set by how fast a dog can dissipate heat, especially in a non-
arctic setting.
This suggests, obviously, a
combined heat and weight-loss
system in the form of a radiative heart-lung machine. To use
the RHLM, simply plumb it into your blood supply, Your nice
warm blood now circulates through a large wall-mounted
radiator, heating your room.
The returning blood will, of course, be very cool, but your
body will work to rectify this, burning extra calories to
compensate. Net result: effortless weight loss in a warm
room.
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// the limit will be set by how fast a dog can
dissipate heat// - you say that as if you haven't
measured the thermal conductivity of huskies |
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You have no idea how much ... |
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//haven't measured the thermal conductivity of huskies// |
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In water, with a heat pump, pretty high. |
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I love this idea. Let's use racks of hamsters (since I just learned how to connect them). |
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You're proposing to use your own body heat to warm up a
cold room. |
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How is this better than just taking some clothes off? |
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//How is this better than just taking some clothes off?// |
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It bypasses the body's ability to avoid wasting heat. Just take six aspirin before you use it. |
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I think this might be pretty rough on the huskies. Or your own body, whichever. |
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It might
be easier in the long run to deal with the heat dissipation
bottleneck with a genetically
engineering and breeding programme with a goal of hairless
black huskies with
naturally leaky mitochondria. |
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And are we actually wedded to specifically using huskies?
Feeding them meat is naturally expensive and wasteful. |
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Tatterdemalion suggests hamsters, and these would have
several advantages - but gerbils are perhaps superior for this
purpose, since they are more social and apparently don't hibernate.
They eat primarily vegetable matter, and also
are smaller than huskies, allowing more granular
temperature regulation.
As a fringe benefit they're probably easier to
fit into a heating system, and enjoy tunnels. |
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So I vote for black hairless overclocked gerbils. |
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// How is this better than just taking some clothes off? // |
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Because many humans look deeply unattractive even with clothes; removing them just makes things worse. |
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If the purpose of warming the room is to warm the
humans within it, is chilling their blood before
returning it to them not a tad counterproductive? |
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I think it runs on the hired help. |
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... or it's an alternative to ghost stories, for people who don't
want to be complicit in the negative stereotyping of ghosts. |
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I've heard some people like to sit in the sauna for a while and then go outside and roll in the snow. I've also heard that that can cause heart attacks or something like that, due to the heart suddenly getting a bunch of quite cold blood returning from the extremities. I don't know if it's the coldness or the suddenness that's the problem. If it's the coldness, this arrangement could lead to serious complications and likely death, especially if the room starts pretty cold. |
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