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Re: Vehicle heat storing device-use for camping?
The safest and simplest way to store and exchange thermal energy for campers in a tent or pop-up is to do it in the form of hot water. Use a nylon pail with a gasket seal lid that you can get free from bakeries or sandwich shops that use 5 gallon pails of pastry filling or pickles is the place to get them. Fill the pail with hot or boiling water and secure the lid and don't let anybody knock over the pail. Maybe the best way to do this is to put the pail in the tent and then bring pails of boiling water into the tent and load up the plastic bucket.
If you are afraid of spilling water, you can do the same thing with sand (in a metal container), but sand can get really hot. While water will not get hotter than 220 F (100 C), sand can get infinately hot - theoretically until it turns to molten glass or to the max temp of your cooking pot. Anyway, at a campsite, you could easily get the sand to 500 degrees F which would easily melt your tent floor and anything synthetic that touched the hot sand can.
The safest and simplest way to store and exchange thermal energy for campers in a tent or pop-up is to do it in the form of hot water. Use a nylon pail with a gasket seal lid that you can get free from bakeries or sandwich shops that use 5 gallon pails of pastry filling or pickles is the place to get them. Fill the pail with hot or boiling water and secure the lid and don't let anybody knock over the pail. Maybe the best way to do this is to put the pail in the tent and then bring pails of boiling water into the tent and load up the plastic bucket.
If you are afraid of spilling water, you can do the same thing with sand (in a metal container), but sand can get really hot. While water will not get hotter than 220 F (100 C), sand can get infinately hot - theoretically until it turns to molten glass or to the max temp of your cooking pot. Anyway, at a campsite, you could easily get the sand to 500 degrees F which would easily melt your tent floor and anything synthetic that touched the hot sand can.
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