I don't know what the site author did to make it so the zoom button doesn't adjust the font size but I implore anyone similarly tempted: please don't do this.
Be really careful with humidifiers.
I cranked mine up too much and it caused a mold issue in my home, and mold in my home caused me health issues.
This is a very good idea, it uses no external energy and can potentually last forever. It’s a very simple and efficient thing. The only thing that I wonder is if this could be washed and whether mold can form in the pores. My ultrasonic steam humidifier can be easily cleaned but it makes an audible sound that happens to not bother me.
Completely unrelated the content - which I cannot read due to the tiny font, but can anyone recommend a plugin/extension for Firefox that can take webpages like this and trim out the excessive whitespace? I cannot read the text and increasing the size (control-+) just makes the white space bigger too.
Here’s an idea I had for a humidifier. It simply tumbles thousands of tiny beads through tumbler with water at the bottom. Since the sheer number of small beads creates a huge surface area you’d get a bunch of evaporation.
Cool right? Feel free to use this idea as prior art.
Is this actually practical or is it some art project? It looks like the latter.
Pretty! A bucket full of perlite and half full of water does a decent job too. The trouble lies in keeping the water topped off and keeping it clean, as with anything else evaporative.
Depending on your water supply, this design may fill up very quickly with mineral deposits and stop wicking.
To mildly humidify my baby son’s room without having to maintain a humidifier, I use a towel soaked in water, draped over a chair, with a fan pointed at it overnight.
get an open top aquarium, it's much more rewarding and efficient way to increase the humidity of a room
Is this the same thing as a swamp cooler?
This is an art project and nothing more.
Humidifying only 600 square feet, the size of a studio apartment, takes about 5 gallons of water per day in winter. [1]
The reservoir on this object looks to be no more than two gallons, and I would be truly shocked if it requires even daily refilling. If it actually moved enough water to make a difference, it would be a fundamentally flawed design in requiring multiple complete fillings per day, carting entire gallons to it (as you can't simply take the reservoir to the faucet). In fact however, I would be shocked if it made any measurable difference at all.
It speaks volumes that no information about the rate of water consumption and no measurement figures of RH are present on the page.
1: https://www.generalfilters.com/support/humidity-calculator.h... (settings: St Louis MO values for outside temperature and humidity. Inside 74, 50%, 8' ceilings, standard 0.5 air changes, 1 fireplace)