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The inside walls of the house are covered in foot long hairs, sticking out of the walls. But what are these hairs there for? Why for heating of course! And not just in the way you think. The hairs, have insulated heating coils, within themselves. Hundreds, even thousands of these heating hairs blanket
the walls of the house.
Might be quite comfortable to rub up upon on those cold winter days!
I admit, it might be quite a wiring job, and I dunno about effient!
Polar Bear Hair is not Fiber Optic
http://it.stlawu.edu/~koon/polar.html
Debunk of popular idea [csea, Nov 14 2005]
Yurt-ish
https://drive.googl...LH4uQparkt1_FGMIClM
[not_morrison_rm, Nov 11 2018]
Locally-thermostatic heating wire
The idea I said I should post. I posted it. [notexactly, Nov 12 2018]
[link]
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This would make going indoors akin to climbing inside the damp and cavernous nostrils of Kenneth Williams. |
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Just think of the lice... |
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Pa`ve, that's sort of what gave me the idea, you get the goosbumps, and your body transfers heat to the hair, heating the outside of the body. Well, if there is wind that all goes to waste! Reverse that, and make the hairs be heat tranferers, with an end outside and an end inside. Any heat outside gets transfered inside |
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Inside, outside, that side, my side! |
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Imaginative as it is, I have to fishbone this on account of my allergies (the hair would be impossible to clean). Sorry. |
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Who says he's ever going to invite you over? |
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Well, if I'm not invited, I'm *definitely* fishboning it! |
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I was going to locate a reference to the notion that polar bear hair (fur) has optical properties that bring in radiation and absorb efficiently. |
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Not so! say recent papers [link]. |
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I think enough fur inside/outside would create great thermal mass, and keep the house warm with just a small heater. No need for the hair to be self-heating, it would capture warm air and keep it from moving about, forming a very thick insulating layer. |
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You read the phrase: "foot long hairs," right? They wouldn't all be tiny ones like on your body. I imagine them to be somewhat thick, like the thickness of a Number 2 pencil. |
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As a side benefit, you could have your music as loud as you wanted. |
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Yeah, it'd be close to anechoic. |
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Now I'm repulsed as well as sneezing! |
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Wash it with the same shampoo as your ex-grilfriend/ ex-boyfriend used. |
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You would either try to sleep up against the walls at night, or be pissed off all the time. Both could be considered signs of questionable mental health, and then you would rarely have to worry about visitors. |
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Then again, a hairy house may cause some to wonder about you anyways. Unless the house wears a mullet on the outside. |
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I read the name. I knew how I'd vote. |
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Would the hair grow, need trimming and constantly either be too short in an uncool way, or too long and constantly getting in your eyes? |
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Welcome to my Chia pad, the walls are shag baby, Yeah. |
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Ugh. Mabye cool for an hour or day, but once it starts absorbing odors, getting dusty, etc, it's just disgusting. If I were a roach or a spider, though, I'd definately give it a [+] |
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I would hate to see the electric bill. |
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This is quite a mental image. To clean it one could just shave the walls. The hairs could be made extrusible, and might slowly extrude by themselves. |
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I was thinking they could just be mounted to pieces of
fabric that you hang on the walls (like tapestries, which did
serve an insulating purpose when they were popular), and
you could just take those down and throw them in the
washing machine once in a while. They could even have
some kind of indicator that changes color when it gets wet
in the washer and then slowly changes back as it dries out
(or vice versa, getting dry in the dryer and absorbing
humidity from the air) to tell you when to wash them again. |
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I think OP just means it might not be attractive to people
named Effie. |
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Anyway, I have an idea on my list, from over a year ago,
that might be applicable to this one. I guess I should post
that. |
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If the "hairs" were on the exterior of the building, they would tend to reduce air circulation, and so cut heat loss. Wind buffeting would be reduced, and water could be directed away from the structure if the hairs had a "droop" of 20 degrees or more. |
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They might also work to reduce solar gain in some environments. |
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An idea worthy of further research. |
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I like the exterior hairs. They'd work just like they do on
animals. They'd also provide a place for small wildlives to
nest. |
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... until the householder turns on the high voltage supply <snigger>. |
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