Keeping Computers (And People) Warm In Winter?

Posted by timothy on Saturday October 23, 2004 @11:47AM from the stock-up-on-sweaters-and-batteries dept.

Grimwiz writes "Similar to a few of you, I have some of my computers on a UPS. However, the UK press have recently been warning that power supply interruptions are likely this winter and I've been pondering about upgrading my power protection from those few machines to include a few key house components. In particular, I need to ensure that the gas-powered (but electrically controlled) central heating stays working. I have reviewed a few solutions, including Solar / Photovoltaic or purchasing a generator but they seem to be hugely more expensive than my simple UPS solution, although they do provide a much longer lasting solution than running off batteries. (A battery solution becomes quite expensive if I require more than an hours backup.) My power requirements for a quiescent house is about 4amps @ 250V, and I'd like to survive at least 8 hours. What solutions do you recommend?"

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Re:Replacing your UPS? by Naffer · 2004-10-23 13:35 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Drop an iodine tablet in water and it kills all that stuff you don't want to be drinking. It tastes like shit, but its better then picking up e-coli from some mountain stream.