One of the nastiest prospects of living completely off the grid when SHTF is having to forgo the pleasures of hot water for bathing and cleaning.
Of course, many people will combat this with either high-tech systems of solar or wind to power their water heaters, or they will simply heat large pots of water one at a time over their old-fashioned wood stove.
These are both perfectly viable ways to solve the same problem, but there is another way that combines the two. Without any electricity, with the power of burning wood, you can heat up the water going into your off-grid home's water heater. This will give you the benefit of using an insulated water storage tank, as well as the benefit of it being an extremely affordable method of hot water production.
This will give you the benefit of using an insulated water storage tank, as well as the benefit of it being an extremely affordable method of hot water production.
Check out the simple process in the video on the next page.
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Cari Pecskovszky Moore
So im guessing you would disconnect copper tubing feom the cold valve at bottom to get the hot water out for usage?
Ted Danielson
Craig Curlette
Michael McGallion
I’ve seen this video before, it’s a convoluted and complicated way of making hot water. There are easier ways
Any decent sporting goods store has pretty much anything solar. Showers, lighting, device chargers, etc.
Even Wal-Mart carries some stuff.
Hot water huh!?
Least of your problems.
Kimberly Lynn Osborne Aaron Boot
Chance Grant Pritchett
Greg Stacey
Steven Mason
Brandon Perkins
This sort of device is normally installed in the chimney of a fireplace or wood burning stove or furnace. Does not make any sense to make a special burner for it. If you have to burn wood for hot water, you probably also need to burn it for space heat and for cooking. Combine stuff and go for multipurpose. Saves fuel.
I see that you have not yet been there and done that.
It is common to be without power for a week or more after a hurricane in Florida, and I’ve seen it go as long as four months. Everyone in the state seems to have electric hot water heaters. Hot water is greatly appreciated when you don’t have it.
I’ve even seen devices like this rigged up in hunting camp. Everyone has propane water heaters available, but burning wood saves trips to town to buy supplies.
The boiling water creates pressure and flows up and out as long as you have some gravity pressure from the cold side it will flow
“I will hot water” FM
Tasha Fox
Jesse Clark
This is very misleading as it’s not endless anything – in fact, if you don’t have wood/combustible material, you don’t get hot water. When it comes to hot water, without fuel/electric, a bag hanging in the sun will heat nicely, you can also use a wood frame with black plastic tubing with water flowing through it to heat water (as is common with pool heating systems that don’t use fuel/electric). Most camping outlets sell black water bags that work nicely.
Jack Bravo Amanda
love this guy…his youtube is the bomb
It’s called fire, lol
What if, just throwing it out there. You build a little stove like this with a coil. The stove can be used to heat or cook, you pull water from a tote which has a collection system on it, then heat the water up to a heater. Use the lower valve for gravity feed hot water, feed in the top then use the hot out to feed overflow back to the tote. Couldn’t that be a continual cycle heater?
They should rename this how to waste resources while heating water.
Having hot water on standby like that is a huge waste of resources, I don’t care how well you insulate the tank.
Seriously? This is what preppers are worried about? And theybelive this will be a useful tip whent shtf? Sad Sacks.
As a plumber that is the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen. Don’t even try it it won’t work
Polly Macias
Easy solution- get a few old gas water heaters with constant pilots. No electricity used!
Grady Guy
Okay, if the SHTF as the article states, and you are “completely off the grid”, where is your water coming from?
engineer775
https://youtu.be/5IRLVCJ1olA might want to watch his other stuffandlearn a fewthings before trsh talking agood man,for no reason.
I have gravity fed spring?
http://www.thegoodsurvivalist.com/how-to-make-a-259-emergency-water-filter-system-for-less-than-45-gives-you-2600-gallons-of-drinkable-water/
https://youtu.be/DIgHkKgmZAU
http://www.getberkey.com/black-berkey-replacement-water-filters-set-of-2/
They have a solar that works really well and is very compact. My grandpa uses one out on the farm. But it will get way to hot if your not carfull
Fire, copper tubing And water! How ingenious is that from the late 1800’s
Marcus
Scott Hunt
Ever hear of a well, Stephen Bernier? It’s like a magic hole in the ground.
A bag hanging in the sun in negative temperatures? lol…yeah ok. As well, you need combustible materials to make anything hot. Even power plants burn coal and uranium to produce electricity, well, steam, then electricity, and solar uses the sun…which is burning…so youve got wind, and hydroelectric that are non combustible forms of mechanical energy which in turn can produce heat. School is now dismissed.
It’s kind of funny that you think you schooled me on this. There isn’t one intelligent person that would have thought you could hang a bag in Sub-Zero temperatures in the sunlight and get warm water. The point was that if you have firewood then you don’t really need to waste all the effort and resources to make a coil in some tiny little device that isn’t going to be usable for much else. You could easily just heat a pot of water over your campfire.
Jeffery Ray Kizer
Maureen White
It’s thermosyphoning. As the water temp rises the hot water is forced out the high point pulling cold water in from a lower point. The process will continue until out of cold water or until temps become more equalized when syphoning from and to the same tank.
This guy has some awesome videos on YouTube.
Or a pond, stream, lake, river, rain puddle: his comment was not well thought out.
Daniel Aumen holy$#%&!@*you are dumb, maybe not the dumbest, but you are definitely on the spectrum. How are you saying you schooled someone when your argument has nothing to do with Mark’s initial post? For real?
Ohhh, he’s from Germany. That makes sense.