those gold/silver emergency blankets: do they really work, and how?
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I was at a music festival and they gave me a big wool mix blanket, nice and warm, about 30 minutes later they were like “ok we got this other blanket for you and open a new ‘space blanket ‘, one of the foil ones, and it was just like a crisp/chip bag. Didn’t feel warm at all.
I had a space blanket sewn into the middle of a ground tarp for camping 20+ years ago. Best ground tarp ever.
I was at a music festival and they gave me a big wool mix blanket, nice and warm, about 30 minutes later they were like “ok we got this other blanket for you and open a new ‘space blanket ‘, one of the foil ones, and it was just like a crisp/chip bag. Didn’t feel warm at all.
It’s a thermal mirror. A regular mirror won’t reflect the heat back at you the same. It’s the property of that thin ply of space age metal alloy developed for being light weight and deflect radiant heat away from a craft. In essence you can use it the way space crafts use it to stay cool if you use it to build shade, too!
Campers use this as a cheat mode in imaginative ways. Use it against the backing to reflect the campfire heat down onto your sleeping mat.
Use on opposite side of fire so the side toy aren’t on is reflected back at your camp tent instead of radiating away into nowhere
The material itself doesn’t get warm usually. It’s cool if you touch it but of course it can hot if you guest it
*Maybe not an alloy and just a composite of two materials that don’t fuse or anything
They work if you use them correctly. They reflect heat very, very well. Unfortunately they also conduct heat very well. Keep them away from you skin so that they can reflect your body heat back to you. Do not allow them to touch your skin or they will conduct the heat away from you.
I had a space blanket sewn into the middle of a ground tarp for camping 20+ years ago. Best ground tarp ever.
It’s a thermal mirror. A regular mirror won’t reflect the heat back at you the same. It’s the property of that thin ply of space age metal alloy developed for being light weight and deflect radiant heat away from a craft. In essence you can use it the way space crafts use it to stay cool if you use it to build shade, too!
Campers use this as a cheat mode in imaginative ways. Use it against the backing to reflect the campfire heat down onto your sleeping mat.
Use on opposite side of fire so the side toy aren’t on is reflected back at your camp tent instead of radiating away into nowhere
The material itself doesn’t get warm usually. It’s cool if you touch it but of course it can hot if you guest it
*Maybe not an alloy and just a composite of two materials that don’t fuse or anything
I was at a music festival and they gave me a big wool mix blanket, nice and warm, about 30 minutes later they were like “ok we got this other blanket for you and open a new ‘space blanket ‘, one of the foil ones, and it was just like a crisp/chip bag. Didn’t feel warm at all.
It’s a thermal mirror. A regular mirror won’t reflect the heat back at you the same. It’s the property of that thin ply of space age metal alloy developed for being light weight and deflect radiant heat away from a craft. In essence you can use it the way space crafts use it to stay cool if you use it to build shade, too!
Campers use this as a cheat mode in imaginative ways. Use it against the backing to reflect the campfire heat down onto your sleeping mat.
Use on opposite side of fire so the side toy aren’t on is reflected back at your camp tent instead of radiating away into nowhere
The material itself doesn’t get warm usually. It’s cool if you touch it but of course it can hot if you guest it
*Maybe not an alloy and just a composite of two materials that don’t fuse or anything
I had a space blanket sewn into the middle of a ground tarp for camping 20+ years ago. Best ground tarp ever.
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