Rocket candle quick heater?

Is this feasible--

--candle (beeswax) in a tiny L tube
--vented into the room, so no chimney is needed
--riser "barrel" touching or near the toilet seat to heat it

You would run it for five minutes maybe in the morning. It would produce less smoke than a candle, and concentrate on buttwarming.

It could be an oil lamp instead of a candle.

I did search this section a bit before sharing this idea, there's a "swedish candle" result that came up but the video linked to was marked "private ".  Thanks team.

A candle isn't going to throw off much heat. That being said, a butt warmer really doesn't need much does it? Unless it was in direct contact with the seat it wouldn't do much warming. Seems a lot of work to keep the goose pimples off your bum.

Daniel Ray wrote:A candle isn't going to throw off much heat. That being said, a butt warmer really doesn't need much does it? Unless it was in direct contact with the seat it wouldn't do much warming. Seems a lot of work to keep the goose pimples off your bum.

Thanks Daniel, but sometimes keeping the goose pimples off the bum keeps the person in your life!  

Why don't you just heat some stones with the candle? Maybe an inverted bowl, so the heat doesn't go away while you are heating the thing.

The rocket stove is about burning the lignine present in wood, and you need very high temperatures for that. I'm uncertain about whether the wax or the oil needs so a high temperature to burn efficiently, but it could be. The problem with the candle usually is receiving enough air intake, that's what an oil lamp solves.

Now there are two interesting questions.
1.- Is it worth to increase temperature for a candle? Does it have any effect?
2.- How do you maximize a candle for heating. We know how to maximize it for light, cutting the wick, using a glass lamp. Heat needs a cleaner flame, and probably it needs to control the exact flow of fresh air.

If I'm understanding that your main goal with this idea is to keep a toilet seat from being a jarringly cold surface, I suspect there might be a couple easier ways to accomplish that aim. One that I will admit works great, if not the most permie due to the material, is a styrofoam toilet seat. I have one on my composting toilet and it is ridiculously cozy in winter! It radiates the warmth from your body back at you. It is a little hard to clean. But maybe it's an idea to explore, perhaps there's another material that could work similarly?

Or you could fashion some kind of fabric cover for the toilet seat. Though I imagine if you did something like that, you'd need to wash the covering somewhat frequently. Maybe make a few so you could rotate them when cleaning became necessary?

There are candles used to keep food warm after cooking but before serving... I assume a similar set-up could be used to warm something that retains heat well like stones or bricks.

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=food+warming+candle&iax=images&ia=images

Great to know!  I'm think the best solution is a straw-filled seat wrapped with something waterproof that can be cleaned and then maybe put tinfoil around that.

I would still like to be able to create a quick space heater kind of thing.  I found that a candle in a regular rocket mass heater that was half built (no mass yet) threw off a surprising amount of heat, and if you touched the barrel that would definitely warm your hands up quick on a cold day.  So a superquick space heater with a candle. . .

Electricity and bathrooms don't mix well, for safety.

Heather Sharpe wrote:If I'm understanding that your main goal with this idea is to keep a toilet seat from being a jarringly cold surface, I suspect there might be a couple easier ways to accomplish that aim. One that I will admit works great, if not the most permie due to the material, is a styrofoam toilet seat. I have one on my composting toilet and it is ridiculously cozy in winter! It radiates the warmth from your body back at you. It is a little hard to clean. But maybe it's an idea to explore, perhaps there's another material that could work similarly?

Or you could fashion some kind of fabric cover for the toilet seat. Though I imagine if you did something like that, you'd need to wash the covering somewhat frequently. Maybe make a few so you could rotate them when cleaning became necessary?