Styrofoam Igloo Shelter

[The Heretic]

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1874499602640155

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[Certaindeaf]

Didn't click but you'd think trust fund kids would do better for clicks but that's just me.

 

[308]

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1874499602640155

Simple and easy innovation. A bit cumbersome to pack around, but totally makes sense to help people from freezing to death.

 

[The Heretic]

Didn't click but you'd think trust fund kids would do better for clicks but that's just me.

I have for some time wished for an inexpensive lightweight 'personal shelter' that was warm and waterproof.

Not sure what styrofoam they used that was bendable like that, but should SHTF, these would maybe be good temporary shelters.

 

[Tony617]

 

[Stomper]

Styrofoam actually makes for an amazing insulation material.... it's just that constant "squeaking" noise it makes when handling it that turns me into an agent for evil.

 

[mkwerx]

Styrofoam actually makes for an amazing insulation material.... it's just that constant "squeaking" noise it makes when handling it that turns me into an agent for evil.

Stomper smash?

 

[308]

Styrofoam actually makes for an amazing insulation material....

Adding the reflective material is the biggest payback for retaining heat. Instead of being absorbed by the adjacent material, it reflect the emitted heat backwards. Columbia Sportswear does this with their coats/hats and boots now.

 

[The Heretic]

I see they seem to have the "roof" as two segments with a seam in the middle, such that the panel does not have to bend as much.

Two things I would see something like this as useful:

1) Temp shelter for people in general if SHTF - e.g., I have a 2K SF shop that is partially insulated, fully enclosed, but it gets cold inside in the winter because there is no source of heat. If the "big one" hit, I might want to provide shelter from wind/rain inside my shop for neighbors, myself, my family, etc. - having multiple 'igloos' like this would be something that would be an inexpensive and warm sleeping area.

2) A 'hidey-hole' in the woods - maybe bury a concrete culvert (sealed up) with supplies/etc. and several of these for warmth to sleep in.

 

[Stomper]

Stomper smash?

You know it, I got my Hulk hands standing by!!

 

[Certaindeaf]

The big boys just touch off a can a foam insulation down their pants and call it good.

 

[Rickenbacher39]

Styrofoam actually makes for an amazing insulation material.... it's just that constant "squeaking" noise it makes when handling it that turns me into an agent for evil.

Are you sure it's the styrofoam squeaking that's doing that?...........

 

[Alexx1401]

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1874499602640155

Cool idea. I am not big on the way he is promoting it, hand them out to "homeless" as I could see how that would go here. Pass them out and soon there would me mountains of them trashed out and left for others to clean up. The idea is a cool way to make an emergency shelter though.

 

[The Heretic]

I would rather see them in these igloos than the messes that they make now. YMMV

But I am interested in them for other reasons.

 

[Tony617]

I you can buy thermal blanket that that are silver to reflect the heat back to your body. I have Mylar ones in my earthquake kit and a few in my car as well. They do make permanent one too but they are more costly:

https://www.amazon.com/Arcturus-Wea...al+blanket&dpPl=1&dpID=51qWNeMgI-L&ref=plSrch

 

[MannyGlocks]

Think socialism may have contributed to there being so many homeless in France?

Hey, socialism works...to create homeless people in abundance.

 

[CamoDeafie]

Think socialism may have contributed to there being so many homeless in France?

Hey, socialism works...to create homeless people in abundance.

Of course it works. After all, private property and means of production belongs to the Socialist State right?

Edit; I'm more concerned at the durability... its not exactly "green" when we do have a problem with styrofoam trash being dumped and left in the environment...

 

[NW Backpacker]

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I have for some time wished for an inexpensive lightweight 'personal shelter' that was warm and waterproof.

Not sure what styrofoam they used that was bendable like that, but should SHTF, these would maybe be good temporary shelters.

The video in post #5 says the material is polyethylene foam. Styrofoam, I think, is polystyrene.