What in the heck is cured copper?
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Infrared Portable Heater. The explanation for how this marvelous gizmo
allegedly works is pure Star Wars (movie) hocus-pocus.
It supposedly involves the use of "cured copper" which is "a type of
copper that goes through an extensive heating process to give it
special properties".
Can anyone tell me how you cure copper? Do you just smoke it like a
fish, or do you first need to marinate it in brine (perhaps with
whisky added)?
Here is how they claim their heater works. See:
http://www.biotechresearch.com/epure_heater.php
"Electricity ignites the powerful quartz infrared lamp...The quartz
infrared lamp gently warms the patented cured copper tubes without
combustion... Heat from the copper tubes rides the humidity in the room,
providing moist, soft heat without reducing oxygen or humidity."
Pittsburgh Pete
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They don't seem to tell you what the copper was cured of..., but then
too, copper doesn't get sick a lot. :-)
Autymn D. C.
Space heater with pretreated heat exchanger
Abstract
A space heater with a linear source of infrared radiant energy in heat
exchange relationship with a heat exchanger formed of copper or
aluminum material. The copper is pretreated to soften the copper and
partially blacken the surface thereof. The aluminum is anodized and
electrolytically colored dark. The space heater is thermally more
efficient than a comparable space heater wherein the copper or
aluminum has not been pretreated. The linear source of infrared
radiant energy and heat exchanger are mounted in a heater core that is
thermally insulated by an air jacket from an exterior case.