Hi Marshall, Yes you need that much I use 4 of the 150 watt ones and it is jsut enough. the distance you are away from them has a lot to do with it. if you are right up near them they get very warm but when they are 2 feet away they are very pleasant and comfertable for long periods of time. dont confuse them with a 250 watt heat lamp which will burn you up. But thats not Far infrared so there is a big difference in these Far infgrared heaters as far as wattage required. So I lay under 600 watts worth of them and I barely break a sweat. you dont need to sweat much to make FIR work in the body. It works even if you dont sweat.
Take care, V > "M. G. Devour" wrote: >> Jason asks: >> > Are these 150 watt heaters suitable for human use? ... or would one >> > truly need a 300 watt far infrared heater? >> Two 150's side by side is going to be hard to distinguish from one 300. >> <grin> > But is 300 watts necessary? That is a heck of a lot of power to be pumping > into one's body, a person normally generates about 100 watts of heat, so > that would increase their heat load by 300%. The body would have to > dissipate 4X as much as as normal, and if using it on an extremety could > result in overheating or even cooking I would think. >> One question worth asking is what kind of electromagnetic field do they >> generate? If I put myself in a box with a bunch of these, how bad is >> the bombardment? > They generate far infrared. It is similar to the radiation you feel coming > off of a hot pan and will contain both far as well as near infrared. Use > of some cotton between it and your body will eliminate the near infrared > (that has very little penetrating power), leaving the deep penetration far > infrared. > Refrigerators are being made with far infrared compartments for meat. They > claim that the far infrared increases the nucleic acid in meat, making it > maintain it's taste longer. This could be a hint on what it does in the > body as well. Also there is a paper on pasturization using far infrared, > which might mean it is capable of killing pathogens in the body as well: > TI Far-infrared irradiation effect on pasteurization of bacteria on or > within wet-solid medium > AU Hashimoto, Atsushi; Igarashi, Hideo; Shimizu, Masaru > AF Tokyo Univ of Agriculture & Technology > AC Tokyo > AY Jpn > SE J Chem Eng Jpn > ST Journal of Chemical Engineering of Japan > SN 0021-9592 > CN JCEJAQ > IG 0078972 ISL n 6 SD Dec VOL v 25 YR 1992 > AT (Author abstract) NR 9 Refs AB > The present purpose is to study the influence of far-infrared > irradiation on pasteurization of Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus > aureus on or within a model for wet-solid food. Agar medium was used > as the food model. By determining the thermal resistances of the test > bacteria, the pasteurization effect of far-infrared irradiation > (radiative heating) was compared with that of hot-air heating > (a conventional method) from the viewpoint of thermal death kinetics. > It was found experimentally that far-infrared irradiation is more > effective than hot-air heating for the test bacteria on the agar-plate. > More information on FIR can be found here: > http://www.chimachine4u.com/fir.html > Marshall > -- > The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. > Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org > To post, address your message to: [email protected] > Address Off-Topic messages to: [email protected] > The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... > List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]> > --
