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Zron, to risa in It's that time of year when Scotty's brain melts.

Since you seem to have issues understanding things like basics thermodynamics and physics, I’ll break it down in short sentences.

Candle make little heat that go away into air, take long time to raise temperature of room. Long time means candle likely left alone for long time.

Blanket keep your little heat close to body, keep you warmer than candle will.

Candle balanced on tower of pots and bricks. Candle not likely to fall, pots and bricks very likely to get bumped by idiot trying to use candle to heat entire room during emergency. Idiot might be asleep when they bump candle. Or idiot human might have idiot cat that want to play with shiny glowy candle. Now idiot die in fire cause big fire use all the air and make a lot of smoke.

Zron, to risa in It's that time of year when Scotty's brain melts.

Until all 3 of you die because you accidentally started an uncontrolled fire while you’re already in an emergency.

2 people and 2 space blankets have just as good odds as surviving the cold than 2 people and some candles. Without needing to worry about fire.

A candle is going to heat up the area around it and dissipate that heat. The blanket will simply keep that 350 btu that you produce every hour much closer to your body, and stop you from freezing to death.

Zron, to risa in It's that time of year when Scotty's brain melts.

Doesn’t matter. A candle puts out about 80 btu. 4 candles is about 320 btu.

For comparison, an average human puts out 350 btu by just existing.

So this will warm up a room about as much as having another person sit in there with you.

You also now have the added risk of having a bunch of open flames balanced on pots in your room.

Don’t do this, buy a space blanket for 5 dollars and keep it in in your nightstand if you’re that worried about freezing to death in your home.

Zron, to science_memes in cannot unhear

Aluminum was the original spelling, adding an extra I was a British thing so aluminum can match the pronunciation of other elements like helium, lithium, beryllium, uranium, and plutonium.

Why didn’t you guys change iron to ironium? Or hydrogen to hydrogenium? Tungsten to tungstenium? Lead to leadium?

It doesn’t make any sense to change one element name when there are plenty of other elements that don’t match the naming scheme.

Zron, to memes in Saw a news story people about people getting arrested for at Wal-Mart for forgeting to scan one item

Loss prevention can, random cashiers cannot.

Fuck em anyway, I pay for my shit and unless it’s a real cop who might shoot me if I twitch funny, I ain’t stopping for shit.

If they don’t want to pay for cashiers, they can deal with people stealing shit. Walmart especially is a corp on welfare, they have the most employees receiving food stamps and Medicaid than any other company. I don’t really care if the government subsidized megacorp loses money every year, they aren’t providing worthwhile jobs anyway.

Zron, to mildlyinteresting in Ancient Iran had air conditioning

Your heat pump will definitely do it, it’ll just take a long time.

The 20 degree figure everyone is throwing around is actually supposed to be the difference between the return air temperature and the supply air inside your home

If you have 80 degree air in your house, 60 degree air should be coming out of your vents. Once the 60 degree air has cooled down the house to 70 degrees or so, 50 degree air should be coming out of your vents. And that’s about the theoretical limit for home air conditioning, as anything lower means the cooling coil is below freezing and will get damaged by ice, there’s usually a safety switch that prevents things from getting too cold.

Now the outside coil needs to be hotter than the surrounding air to actually push that heat out of the coil and cool off. Most places around me are designed for a 95 degree summer day, so will have a refrigerant temperature of about 120 degrees, in order to move that heat. Your compressor needs to be able to compress the refrigerant from your cooling coil until it’s about 30 degrees F hotter than the outside air. The hotter it is outside, the harder it is on the compressor. But it will eventually do it if you let it run long enough. Whether or not you want to pay for all that electricity is another thing entirely.

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