Keeping your home warm / heating / energy crisis / insulation etc

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grams in reply to @C4r1s

Does such a thing as a solar powered storage heater exist? Or, failing that was thinking about the small space heater type things that campervans use but apart from solar panels, car battery and inverter as some of the parts have no idea if that’s feasible or realistic!

Even for small loads, solar power is variable-to-useless in winter. For big loads like space heating it's not going to happen.

Camper van heaters are diesel powered, or sometimes LPG on proper motorhomes. There's a few Youtube videos out there of people fitting diesel heaters to the outside of their sheds etc. I don't think they're particularly complicated. You just need to connect the bits in the kit and supply 12V power for the control electronics, and work out a nice way of mounting it all.

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C4r1s in reply to @grams

Ah that makes sense re campervans. Although I’m sure I’ve seen kits when searching that allowed solar power to charge a leisure battery, which I then assumed would be able to power some form of electric heater.

Absolute power to heat a person isn’t the aim (can do that ok), it’s more to keep the damp/chill/cold out of the room overnight hence the thinking of a slow release storage heater type affair.

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