Can you believe that we are less than a week away from Election Day?  Over 57 million Americans have already voted, and in some states more than half of the total expected vote is already in.  So it may already be too late for a last minute surprise to alter the outcome of the election.  In 2020, Democrats absolutely dominated the early voting period, but in 2024 things are very close between Democrats and Republicans.  Is this an indication that a “red landslide” is coming, or are Republicans simply shifting votes that would have been cast on Election Day into the early voting period?  We will soon find out.  In any event, the following are 8 major election developments that everyone needs to know about…

#1 The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the state of Virginia can purge approximately 1,600 non-citizens from its voter rolls…

The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed Virginia to move forward with its removal of roughly 1,600 alleged noncitizens from its voter rolls just days before the 2024 election.

The high court granted a request from state officials to pause a lower court order that blocked Virginia from continuing its voter removal program that was launched in August, exactly 90 days before Election Day. A provision of the National Voter Registration Act requires states to complete programs aimed at purging ineligible voters from registration lists up to 90 days before federal elections.

#2 There were reports that officials in Bucks County, Pennsylvania had been turning away on-demand mail ballot voters early.  Now a judge in Bucks Country has extended on-demand mail ballot voting until Friday, and this is considered to be a major victory for the Trump campaign…

Bucks County Judge Jeffrey Trauger has ordered the Bucks County Board of Elections to extend its on-demand mail-in ballot deadline until “the close of business” on Friday, Nov. 1.

The Wednesday afternoon ruling stems from a lawsuit filed several hours earlier by former President Donald Trump’s campaign and other state and national GOP groups claiming Bucks County illegally turned away voters.

The filing with the Bucks County Court of Common Pleas, posted online late Wednesday morning, alleges that the county violated the state’s election laws by not allowing some voters to use the “on-demand mail-ballot” option in the final hours of the mail-in ballot application at 5 p.m. Oct. 29.

#3 In Wisconsin, turnout in the conservative counties of Waukesha, Ozaukee, and Washington is far higher than turnout in the liberal bastion of Dane County…

The conservative “WOW” counties of Waukesha, Ozaukee, and Washington have increased their turnout advantage over liberal Dane County up to 12.16%. Dane’s turnout advantage going into Election Day 2020 was 0.9%. This represents a 13% turnout swing compared to ‘20.

#4 In Arizona, Republicans are doing a much better job of turning out “low propensity voters” than Democrats are…

A look at AZ voter frequency scores shows that Democrats are trailing Republicans by a couple of points in the zero, one, and two buckets, turning out more of their 3/3 voters.

It’s not an excellent combination for available votes down the stretch, so Republicans are likely to outvote Democrats by 300,000+.

#5 Abortion is on the ballot in both Arizona and Nevada, and this was supposed to be a major advantage for Kamala Harris in those states.  But it turns out that vast numbers of pro-abortion voters are going to vote for Trump anyway…

While an Washington Post-Schar School poll conducted in October found that 68 percent of voters in Arizona and 80 percent of voters in Nevada say they planned to support their state’s abortion referendum, the same poll showed Harris narrowly behind Trump in Arizona and tied in Nevada. Harris’s support among likely voters in the poll was 46 percent in Arizona to Trump’s 49 percent, and they both had 48 percent support in Nevada.

Meanwhile, Trump — who has claimed credit for Roe’s reversal — has been working to assuage the concerns of independent and Republican voters who support abortion rights. In recent weeks, the former president has promised to veto a national abortion ban, after repeatedly refusing to make such a pledge. While he has maintained that each state should choose its own abortion laws, he said in a recent town hall geared toward women voters that many of the current bans are “too tough.”

Republican and independent voters who plan to split their ticket on abortion — voting for an abortion referendum and for Trump — said they were willing to give Trump the benefit of the doubt on the issue, with some feeling reassured by his recent promises not to crack down further on abortion.

#6 As I discussed yesterday, it appears that the Harris campaign may be giving up on the swing state of North Carolina.  So far, Democrats in the state have cast over 300,000 fewer votes than they did at the same stage of the 2020 early voting period…

According to AdImpact, a political intelligence firm, on Monday the Harris-Walz campaign reserved $2.7 million worth of ads in North Carolina for the last stretch of the campaign, only to turn around and kill more than $2 million of its reservations on Tuesday. Though Harris is following through on a scheduled Raleigh rally on Wednesday morning — while Trump is holding his own event in Rocky Mount, NC — her campaign managers’ hopes of winning North Carolina’s 16 electoral votes have likely plunged as daily updates of early voting numbers continue to paint a grim picture of her prospects in the Tar Heel State.

The 2020 vs 2024 contrast in early voting patterns is striking. Compared to the same time four years ago, North Carolina Democrats have cast 341,000 fewer votes, while Republicans have cast 9,000 more, noted Andy Jackson of the Raleigh-based John Locke Foundation. Aside from the party mix, North Carolina is also seeing lower turnout among two traditional Democratic voter blocs: young people and blacks. In 2020, 92% of the state’s black voters backed Biden. Across the country, however, black support of Trump is surging.

#7 A television station in Pennsylvania is apologizing for broadcasting “randomly generated test results” that were meant to “help news organizations make sure their equipment is working properly in advance of election night”…

Test results for the upcoming November 5 general election mistakenly appeared on WNEP-TV early Sunday evening during a broadcast of the Formula 1 Mexico Grand Prix.

Those numbers should not have appeared on the screen, and it was an error by WNEP that they did.

The numbers seen on the screen were randomly generated test results sent out to help news organizations make sure their equipment is working properly in advance of election night.

#8 It turns out that the incendiary devices that were used to set ballot boxes in Oregon and Washington on fire had a pro-Palestinian message inscribed on them…

Ballot boxes in Oregon and Washington were set on fire with incendiary devices early Monday in what authorities believe are connected incidents, police said.

The devices used in the arson incidents carried markings with the expression “Free Gaza,” two sources familiar with the ongoing investigation told ABC News.

Sadly, I believe that this is just the beginning of the chaos that is coming.

November 5th may be the end of the campaign, but it will also be the beginning of a very dark chapter in our history.

There is going to be such an outpouring of negative emotion in the aftermath of this election, and whoever emerges as the winner is going to be facing crisis after crisis.

Michael’s new book entitled “Why” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com, and you can subscribe to his Substack newsletter at michaeltsnyder.substack.com.

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We live at a time when it is expected that chaos will follow virtually every big event.  In the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, there was looting.  In the aftermath of Hurricane Milton, there was looting.  The war in the Middle East has sparked wild protests and riots all over the country this year.  And even if something really good happens, many people just consider it to be an excuse for even more rioting, looting and violence.  For example, the Los Angeles Dodgers just won the World Series.  But instead of celebrating peacefully, young men in Los Angeles looted stores and threw fireworks at police…

World Series celebrations descended into chaos in the early hours of Thursday morning in Los Angeles, with shops being looted by gangs and fireworks thrown at cops in the street.

Many of the rioters probably don’t even care much about baseball.

But once the Dodgers won, large numbers of people recognized as opportunity to run wild.

According to the LAPD, there was “looting at several stores in the area of 8th and Broadway”…

Looting broke out on the streets of Los Angeles on Wednesday night after the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the New York Yankees to win the 2024 World Series.

The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) said they had received reports of “looting at several stores in the area of 8th and Broadway” and people were urged to stay out of the area.

This has become way too common.

When a team wins a major championship, it is basically expected that citizens of that city will start rioting and looting.

A Nike store that had actually been boarded up in order to prevent looting was hit really hard.  We are being told that a “mob of looters” was seen “carrying merchandise and throwing it into cars”…

The Los Angeles Police Department shared footage of a mob of looters running in and out of a boarded-up Nike store carrying merchandise and throwing it into cars parked outside the store about four miles from Dodger Stadium just after 11 p.m.

If this is what they will do when they are “celebrating”, what will they do when they are extremely angry?

You might want to think about that.

In addition to looting stores, the rioters also set a city bus on fire…

As looters ransacked businesses, other areas of downtown Los Angeles were plunged into madness.

The LAPD said a “hostile crowd” — estimated at between 200 and 300 people — lit an MTA bus on fire about a mile from Dodger Stadium around 12:35 a.m. local time.

Footage posted to Citizen captured the moment a massive crowd — the majority of whom were wearing Dodgers jerseys and apparel — surrounded and sat atop the graffiti-laced bus.

Needless to say, what we just witnessed in Los Angeles is not even worth comparing to the chaos that could potentially follow this election.

Survey after survey has shown that Americans are extremely alarmed about what is coming, and that includes a new poll that was just released by the Associated Press…

American voters are approaching the presidential election with deep unease about what could follow, including the potential for political violence, attempts to overturn the election results and its broader implications for democracy, according to a new poll.

According to that poll, a large proportion of the country is very concerned about the possibility of post-election violence…

About 4 in 10 registered voters say they are “extremely” or “very” concerned about violent attempts to overturn the results after the November election. A similar share is worried about legal efforts to do so. And about 1 in 3 voters say they are “extremely” or “very” concerned about attempts by local or state election officials to stop the results from being finalized.

Relatively few voters — about one-third or less — are “not very” or “not at all” concerned about any of that happening.

At this point, it appears quite likely that Donald Trump will emerge victorious on November 5th.

To many on the left, that is literally the worst possible thing that could ever happen.

I know that this may sound a bit nuts to many of you, but this is how they actually see the world.

There has never been a politician that the left has hated more than Donald Trump, and if he wins this election after everything that has happened over the last eight years, for millions of Democrats it will feel like the world is ending.

And if President Trump attempts to crack down on post-election chaos after he is sworn in, it will just reinforce everything that the left believes about him.  As Lee Smith has noted, we really are on the verge of a very troubling scenario…

Prominent post-election scenarios forecast such widespread rioting that the newly elected president would be compelled to invoke the Insurrection Act. With some senior military officials refusing to follow Trump’s orders, according to the scenarios, the U.S. Armed Forces would split, leaving America on the edge of the abyss.

By vilifying Trump as a despotic madman who must be stopped before he can commence his reign of terror, the regime’s propaganda apparatus not only slanders Trump but also pre-emptively threatens the reputation, as well as the livelihood and perhaps the liberty, of current military personnel. The point is to push the military against Trump: When the time comes to act, will you stand for democracy or side with a tyrant who sees the military only as an instrument to advance his personal interests?

Close to half the country is not going to want to be governed by whoever wins this election.

Unless you are completely and utterly delusional, you should be able to see that this is a major problem.

We are headed for unprecedented societal chaos no matter how this election turns out.

I wish that it wasn’t true, but we are a deeply, deeply divided nation.

For a long time I have been urging everyone to find a way to love one another even though we don’t agree on everything.

But people like me are being drowned out by those that are preaching hate, division and revenge.

Now we are about to reap what we have sown, and it will not be pleasant.

Michael’s new book entitled “Why” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com, and you can subscribe to his Substack newsletter at michaeltsnyder.substack.com.

About the Author: Michael Snyder’s new book entitled “Why” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com. He has also written eight other books that are available on Amazon.com including “Chaos”, “End Times”, “7 Year Apocalypse”, “Lost Prophecies Of The Future Of America”, “The Beginning Of The End”, and “Living A Life That Really Matters”.  When you purchase any of Michael’s books you help to support the work that he is doing.  You can also get his articles by email as soon as he publishes them by subscribing to his Substack newsletter.  Michael has published thousands of articles on The Economic Collapse Blog, End Of The American Dream and The Most Important News, and he always freely and happily allows others to republish those articles on their own websites.  These are such troubled times, and people need hope.  John 3:16 tells us about the hope that God has given us through Jesus Christ: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”  If you have not already done so, we strongly urge you to invite Jesus Christ to be your Lord and Savior today.

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This article was originally published by Rhoda Wilson at The Daily Exposé.

Dr. Robert Malone recently returned to the USA from Japan. While he was there, a large crowd were protesting the roll-out of the new self-replicating RNA vaccines which the Japanese are referring to as “the third atomic bomb.”

At the end of September, Dr. Robert Malone was speaking at a rally in Washington D.C. when he referred to the self-replicating RNA vaccines, or replicon vaccines, that are being rolled out in Japan.

Related: Self-replicating vaccines due to be rolled out next month in Japan could result in a worldwide disaster and Japan: Replicon “vaccines” could turn people into mobile “vaccine” factories

What started as ‘Defeat The Mandates’, a historic idea to bring together the world’s leading covid-19 dissidents in the early days of the vaccine mandates, and ‘Rage Against The War Machine’ in the wake of the Ukrainian conflict, has now become  ‘Rescue the Republic: Join The Resistance’.

On 29 September, Rescue the Republic gathered in Washington “to defend and celebrate the values and principles that have made America and the West the freest, fairest and most productive society the world has ever known.”

You can find the full 7-hour replay and clips taken from the gathering HERE.  One of the clips features Drs. Mary Holland, Pierre Kory, and Robert W. Malone; each briefly spoke before US Senator Ron Johnson took to the stage.  We have embedded the video below to begin with Dr. Malone’s speech.

Dr. Malone had recently returned from the International Crisis Summit 6 held in Tokyo, Japan, on 25-26 September.

“I just came back from Tokyo where they had a 30,000-person rally because they’re about to deploy self-replicating RNA vaccines. Japan is being used as the guinea pigs for the world for this new technology. The Japanese people are calling this the third atomic bomb,” he told the crowd at the Rescue the Republic rally.

The replicon vaccine Kostaive is one of the five injections included in the Japanese government’s routine COVID-19 vaccination program, which began on 1 October and runs until the end of March.

Japan was the first country to approve the replicon vaccine which is being dubbed the “next generation” mRNA vaccine.  The European Medicines Agency is currently reviewing a request for the injection’s approval in the European Union.

Earlier this month, Japan Times reported that the new replicon covid “vaccine” has “sparked extreme anxiety among parts of the public, leading some businesses to deny services to those who have received the shot and causing at least one clinic to stop giving the vaccine for fear of being harassed.”

It is not only the Japanese who are extremely concerned about the replicon injections – we all are.  In the following Paul Philips poses 20 questions about replicon “vaccines” we should all be asking.

New Self-Replicating Nanotech Vaccines – 20 Questions We All Should Be Asking

By Paul A. Philips

As explained by Dr. Robert Malone in the video, not so long ago, 30,000 Japanese citizens took to the streets in Tokyo to protest the planned rollout of a new self-replicating nanotechnology covid-19 so-called vaccine. Prominent related healthcare professionals in Japan issued warnings describing this new replicon “vaccine” as the “third atomic bomb.”

In spite of the mass protests the vaccine industrial complex perpetrators are set to defy these protesters: The Japanese MHLW (Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare) gave approval to the proposed ARCT-154 vaccine rollout.

As stated by Dr. Malone there have even been threats of legal action on the protesters, even jail time, for criticising the vaccine, labelling them as spreaders of “misinformation” in spite of the fact that the drug manufacturer doesn’t seem to be able to provide any data in support of mRNA replication capabilities in the new vaccine when injected into humans.

This new “vaccine” is planned to be rolled out in the United States, sometime in the fall.

In light of this here are 20 questions we all should be asking NOW.

1. Given that, in retrospect, the Japanese have been staunch opposers of the vaccine, for example, their government had issued a public apology over its detrimental effects, doesn’t this country’s 180° turnaround indicate that the deeply dark corrupt medical establishment and associates in their genocidal octopus alliance have shown overwhelming control over Japan and its decision making, and will likewise influence other countries?

2. Isn’t it clear evidence that crimes in the medical-pharmaceutical establishment have been committed when severe illnesses and deaths from their toxic poisons haven’t been addressed? Consider this with regard to the VAERS data and its much underreporting.

3. If it was such a great product then why is it maiming and killing so many?

4.  Aren’t the dangers to life, lack of safety and cover-up of unlisted potentially harmful adjuvants (vaccine ingredients) more than apparently clear by now, due to a lack of scrutiny?

5. Where is the “First Do No harm” or “Hippocratic Oath” (more like hypocritic oath) in all this??

6. Why aren’t the medical-pharmaceutical government agencies, related healthcare workers and academia really looking into these vaccine adverse event injuries with serious challenges, where are their interrogations?

7. Following on from the above, when the corporate media is blatantly in collusion with the medical-pharmaceutical with their misinformation and disinformation, cover-ups and lies, isn’t this stand-down behaviour another clear case of “harm over health” in this profiteering racket?

8. Further, when injected into the body, how does the self-replicating nanotech process switch off?

9. Do the vaccine manufacturers even care whether or not the self-replicating process switches off?

10. La Quinta Columna claims that the related research carried out on the vaccines shows no mRNA present, but its self-replicating aspect is based on graphene oxide nanotech. Is the mRNA claim merely a cover arm for the graphene nanotech?

11. Following on, given that there is no related data available, no human trials indicating what these injectables are doing, aren’t the manufacturer’s pictures and illustrations explaining what is going on, for example, so-called viruses represented as “spikey balls,” merely cartoons based on unproven theory??!

12. Could the lack of data be because we are not privy to knowing what the vaccine is really doing in human bodies?

13. What about the level of the so-called vaccine activity over time with consideration to the long-term and its effects on humans?

14. How exactly is the genetic make-up targeted and how do the genes switch on and off?

15. Can the self-replicating transfer, for example, in pregnant women to their unborn child, where is the evidence to say doesn’t?

16. Considering the interrogatory and the lies in response, what then, are we missing here?

17. Considering the related research with its fake science manipulations does anybody want to be jabbed with unscientific propaganda theory??

18. If we do not push back won’t this self-replicating nano-technology be so far advanced that there will come a time when nothing can be done about it? For instance, consider a scenario where vaccine robot police enforcement detects that you have been un-vaxxed. If you refuse to be vaxxed then they will force-vaccinate you with their vaccine guns.

19. Following on, will it make you an outright enemy of the state “conspiracy theorist” to believe in your body’s natural ability to heal; to have a healthy immune system supported with naturopathic health?

20. While these nut-job globalists isolate themselves in a protective bubble from shedding, could the rest of the world population soon become too sedated to realize what’s happening to them, isn’t the writing on the wall?

The list goes on.

Finally

Things could get ugly when confronted with an agendised fake mass-murdering depopulation bioweapon. However, consistent and persistent pushback is indeed crucial.

So is protection.

If you don’t want your life turned into a debilitating existence or wind up dead consider the protective measures needed, especially the protection needed for the vulnerable, such as the children and elderly.

It has been said that there are a number of protective solutions that will destroy the so-called vaccine nano-bots and their replication capabilities.

Treatment solutions include EDTA/Vitamin C, methylene blue, nicotine patches, hydroxychloroquine, and ivermectin. It’s up to you to do your own research and find solutions.

Then, from what you have learned, spread your words of warning and protection to others; shine some light in these darkest days.

About the Author

Paul Philips graduated in biomedical sciences and worked for many years in healthcare. He is now retired.

Are clay pot heaters a wise last-resort warmth tool? Or just a silly gimmick?

Over the years, I’ve seen some incredible claims…

They usually center on getting something of high value for practically no cost.

Sound familiar? Sounds like an infomercial to me…

Some folks claim to heat an entire room with nothing but a few tea-light candles.

So let’s uncover the truth and see if a candle heater is as good as the rumors claim:

TOPICS IN THIS GUIDE…     ↓(click to jump)

• Best Candle Heater On The Market
• DIY Clay Pot Heater Designs
• The Clay Pot-Heater Debate
• Can They “Really” Heat A Room?
• The Science On Why They Work 
• Some Clay Pot Heater Upgrades
• CAUTION: Use At Your Own Risk

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Best Candle Heater On The Market Today

Before you get too far down the “clay pot candle heater rabbit hole” the quick answer is YES, THEY DO WORK…just not very well.

I wouldn’t stake my families lives on it…that’s for sure.

So if you’re looking for a REAL solution that takes the science behind a “clay pot candle heater” and scales it up so it actually works, check out the Vesta Self Powered Indoor Space Heater:

↓ VESTA: The Ultimate Self-Powered Indoor Space Heater!

↓ Vesta Self-Powered Indoor Space Heater Review

Best DIY Clay Pot Candle Heater Designs

To start off, let’s take a minute to watch one of the original videos that started this clay pot heater frenzy:

↓ Candle Powered Air Heater – Flower Pot Heater

So the idea is to use stacked terracotta pots and a couple of candles to generate enough heat to warm a room.

With my engineering background, it’s hard to see how math can work out on a project like this.

A candle flame only puts out so much heat, and it’s small compared to even a modest electric space heater.

After analyzing kerosene vs. propane heaters, I was extremely skeptical, to say the least.

But most projects like this are based on some bit of truth, so it was worth exploring.

It turns out that people have been building versions of a candle-powered heater for years.

And there are lots of videos and plans to build your own DIY version of it at home (which you can find later in this article).

↓ Easy DIY Terra Cotta Heater

↓ How To Heat A Room With Clay Pots Heater

Now, nearly all candle-powered heaters share a few things in common.

You will already know basic clay pot heater design from watching the videos above.

A heater body is formed with nesting clay pots, often separated by and attached to a central steel bolt.

The bolt has additional steel washers in the spaces between pots to form a basic heat exchanger.

This clay pot structure is usually nested at least two levels deep.

This setup creates a series of internal spaces between the pots.

Once constructed, the heater body is flipped over and supported by bricks, pans, or a metal stand.

This allows you to position the center bolt directly above a small candle.

When the candle is lit, the flame heats the steel bolt directly, causing it to heat the clay pots.

The pots also trap the hot air rising from the flame.

This “trap” slows the heat escape into the surrounding cold air and gives it time to heat the clay further.

As the candle burns, the interior chambers can reach relatively high temperatures.

All the candle heat slowly builds in the mass of the clay pots.

After some time, you can begin feeling the heat on the outside surface of the largest pot.

Such a simple idea, but does it really work?

Before I attempt to answer that question, let’s see what others have said about the clay pot heater.

The Clay Pot Candle-Heated Debate

In my research, I found many passionate people who favor clay pot heaters and those against them.

These little heaters have caused quite a stir.

People share videos of them working like a charm to warm a small room, while others debunk such claims.

And the debate is not always civil; I stumbled across a surprising amount of name-calling!

So, let’s review the main arguments for and against the clay pot heater.

Those For

But don’t just take my word for it. Let’s hear from others who claim this clay pot heater does an excellent job of heating a small space.

Here are three videos that “prove” these little candle heaters work:

↓ Clay Pot Heater Test | Does It Actually Work?!

↓ Clay Pot With Tea Lights Room Heating

↓ A DIY Tiny House Heater

Those Against

However, I don’t want to leave out the “against” arguments.

Here’s a video from someone who doesn’t think these clay post heaters are worth the time and effort to make.

↓ Flower Pot Heaters Don’t Freaking Work

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But Can They “Technically” Heat A Room?

How much can you really heat up a room with one of these candle heaters?

“Technically,” it’s the same as you can without one.

The first law of thermodynamics states:

The total energy in a system will remain constant.

Burning the candle releases stored chemical energy, converting it to heat and light.

The amount of energy released is the same whether you have clay pots or not.

Adding a candle heater above the flame doesn’t add heat to the room.

Since each tea candle produces only about 30 Watts, you’ll need dozens to heat even a small room.

Sure, you can buy them in bulk – for example, here are 125 of them for only $12.79 (that’s 10 cents each).

But they’ll only last a few hours before you need to replace them.

So why all the fuss about candle heaters? Why are so many people still building them?

Here’s the exciting part.

While a candle heater doesn’t increase the heat the burning candle releases.

It DOES allow you to convert that heat from one transfer mode to another.

Thus, it makes heat much more useful to humans.

Let me explain…

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3 Types Of Heat Transfer

There are three types of heat transfer: convection, conduction, and radiation.

1. Convection

Convection is when a gas or fluid is heated and circulates within a space.

This is heat transfer via moving particles.

This is how most of the heat leaving the candle is transferred.

The rising column of hot air takes the heat and mixes it with the cooler surrounding air.

This process slowly brings the temperature of the room up.

If the room is large and the air is cold, you can imagine how little the effect will be.

2. Thermal Conduction

Conduction happens when a warmer object comes in contact with a cooler one.

Heat is transferred from the warm object to the cold one directly.

In the case of the candle, touching the hot wax would transfer heat to your finger via conduction – ouch!

3. Thermal Radiation

Finally, radiation is the transfer of heat by infrared radiation.

With our light tea candle, there’s a small amount of radiated heat from the burning wick.

However, it’s not an effective means of heating your hands, let alone a room.

There isn’t enough mass in the candle wick to radiate a large amount of heat.

OK, enough science; back to our candle heater –

Why There Candle Heaters Do Work (sort of)

Again, these clay pot heaters will never generate more heat than a candle without clay pots.

Because, well – science.

So what’s going on here? Why are so many people convinced these heaters do work?

The flowerpot heater does not increase the heat; just its usefulness.

Here’s what’s happening…

The candle under the clay pot heats the air rising via convection into the clay pots.

That superheated air is immediately trapped in the clay pots.

This means the candle heat collects and builds before it can dissipate and mix with the cold air in the room.

The trapped hot air heats the cold clay and steel, which acts as a larger thermal mass (a.k.a. an object that stores heat (or heat battery)).

Once the heater core is warmed up, it radiates heat from the outside surface.

This build-up and radiation make it much easier to “feel” the heat on your skin.

Think of how a campfire puts off radiant heat that warms us.

In addition to radiating heat, the heater surface can reach a nice hand-warming temp.

You can wrap your hands around the outer pot and heat them via conduction.

Imagine putting your hands around a hot mug of coffee – a similar idea.

Note: The more candles you use, the shorter time you can keep your hands on the surface.

Lastly – heat from a candle (without clay pots) will go straight up in a thin column to the ceiling – and stays there.

This ceiling heat provides zero benefits to the room’s occupants.

And it certainly provides no radiant heat.

However, when trapped under an inverted clay pot, the clay absorbs every bit of heat from the candle.

And thus, it allows it to radiate from a lower vertical location in the room (instead of at the ceiling).

So again, it’s a ‘heat battery,’ storing the heat near the floor.

Thus, helping more of it stay in a part of the room where it can be more efficient at heating our bodies.

So the bottom line is:

The thermodynamics laws are still valid (as they always will be).

But these laws can also miss the point.

The laws don’t always do a great job of accounting for real-world variables such as radiant heat vs. convection and floor vs. ceiling location.

These heaters aim to make a human feel warmer closer to the floor.

These candle heaters can do just that.

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Clay Pot Heater Upgrades

In my research, I found people who made worthwhile modifications to the original clay pot heater design.

The Hanging Setup Upgrade

This upgrade is more of an aesthetic upgrade and prevents heat damage to your coffee table (or other support structure).

↓ New Flower Pot Heater – Costs Just 4 Cents An Hour…

The Sterno Can Upgrade

One modification was to upgrade the heat source from a tea candle to a Sterno can.

Of course, using 2 or 3 Sterno cans will create A LOT more BTUs than the same number of candles.

So, if you use larger heat sources and larger clay pots, you’ll get more heat.

Enough heat to indeed raise the temperature of a small room.

However, with more BTUs, the costs of this setup go up quickly.

So maybe it makes sense to have the upgraded Sterno can version as a backup for a winter power outage…

You know – just in case.

But with more heat, you have also increased the possibility of a house fire.

Caution – Use At Your Own Risk

Before you begin using a clay pot heater, you must use caution.

They can be extremely dangerous, especially if you let them burn unattended.

Don’t leave them lit if you’re leaving your home; never do so while sleeping.

The paraffin wax will melt if too many candles are put into a tight space.

This wax can then become lit (not just the wick).

A large fire can begin spilling out of the clay pot setup, and the liquid wax may drip down and out.

Candles are a leading cause of house fires, so you should take the same level of precaution.

Open flames are not something to take for granted.

↓ Danger Of Flower Pot Candle Heaters

 

Final Thoughts

I think we can safely say that a small candle heater won’t be heating your house soon.

However, a candle heater is enough to warm up some icy fingers!

And it makes you feel a bit warmer as well.

If you’re going to burn a candle for light anyway, you may as well have a heater core above it to trap the heat, too.

The flowerpot does not increase the amount of heat, just its usefulness.

But for winter emergency heating, you’ll need to upgrade to using Sterno cans or get yourself a kerosene or propane heater.

You should always have one of these as a backup for each family member.

Because these last resort warmth tools are an effective and inexpensive insurance policy.

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