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Cheap disposable plastic tent can be used and then discarded after use.
Can later be used as trash bag to hold the trash left over from camping.
Tent can have simple Ziploc-bag type seals to partially close some of the
tent flaps.
An inflatable version would have large inflatable rib-cells,
for both
structural support and double layer air gap protection. Inner layer could
be black plastic, while outer layer would be clear for solar heat
absorption. Can be optionally sold with smaller mylar tent which can be
used as an inner tent, creating a further layer of air gap protection.
Glad Tent
https://www.youtube...watch?v=FWafX3cgV30
[sanman, Jan 29 2021]
Cheap Plastic Tent in Wind
https://www.youtube...watch?v=7PVQLsDkCfo
[sanman, Jan 29 2021]
a cardboard tent ...doesn’t look too sturdy
https://www.orienta...qbm-bBoCmJwQAvD_BwE
[xandram, Jan 30 2021]
[link]
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Crap idea - bone [-] more plastic :-( ..... at least
make it an edible tent. |
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How about a tent that doubles as a body bag ? |
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What if the tent could self-destruct by burning after use ? If it was made of a waxed paper/cardboard composition, it would go up like a rocket, users could be incinerated while they sleep, MUHWHAHAHAHAHA ... </Coughing> |
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Weaponized tents, lined with solid flammables and accelerants. |
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Impractical, extra waste, liable to kill a user or two in emergencies, pointless... Oh what the hell, have a bun. |
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... and a bag of marshmallows to toast, and some potatoes to bake in the embers. |
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I like the idea of an origami heavy duty wax paper Hoberman dome tent and interlocking cardboard supports.
Whole thing would probably pancake and start growing grass through it in a week or so. |
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No more disposable plastic though. |
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That would meet [xen]'s criteria for recyclability, then; add some fertilizer to promote growth ... |
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Hmm, how about an ammonium nitrate based fertilizer, blended in with the wax coating ... ? <Evil chuckling/> |
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Then the race would be on to light it before it gets too damp ... some sort of pull-cord igniter, perhaps. |
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Disposable idea
Create idea, get so-so comments, delete after a while. |
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This idea suggests something a bit stupid that is widely known to exist, and which solves no real problems while creating lots of others. The idea is presented as if it were sensible and new. Beneath the idea, the idea creator posts a link to commercially availble examples of the idea being posted. |
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Meanwile, other halfbakery users post confused and slightly irrelevant annotations trying to work out what is going on. |
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Eventually the idea is either deleted, or falls to the bottom of the recent view lists. |
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It's a good compromise... |
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I have just realised that it is possible but difficult to use the HB formatting to imitate ideas in annotations, and annotations in ideas. We had a spate recently of fake annotations using this kind of technique. |
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Perhaps is is worthy of an idea in itself to promote this as a phenomena in itself. But perhaps not. |
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Please note that Glad Tent was a one-off experiment, and was
not commercialized. You cannot buy that tent anywhere. |
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It's also possible that the plastic could be biodegradable. |
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So that and the inflatability could be the new art. |
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// Mylar is not biodegradable. // |
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Pyrolysed Mylar is mostly water and carbon dioxide, both of which can usefully be absorbed by photosynthetic plants. |
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// And you’re be hard pressed to find a biodegradable material of “trash bag” thinness suitable for making an inflatable tent // |
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Gold-beater's skin, as used in the gas-bags of hydrogen-filled airships. |
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// you’re be hard pressed to find a biodegradable material
of “trash bag” thinness suitable for making an inflatable
tent. |
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I've seen grocery bags that are biodegradable, and they
seem quite thin |
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// By the way, inflatable tents and other temporary
structures are also WKTE. |
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The inflatability was an enhancement of the disposability,
since it would not require tent poles, etc, which may not
be as disposable. |
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Bamboo; renewable, environmentally-friendly, burns really well. |
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Now, a disposable paper tent that can be repurposed as a Montgolfier-style hot air balloon, heated by disposable barbecues, would be an innovation worth exploring ... |
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i posted a link for a cardboard tent which looks
very flimsy, but i like the origami nature of this
tent. it would be great for starting a campfire
when you are finished. |
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The Air Accident Investigation Board is still considering their report on that. |
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// Googling biodegradable tents finds more examples...
Just because an idea seems new to you doesn’t mean
you’re the first to think of it. |
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kdf, we all know inflatable tents are a thing - that's why I
plainly referred to it as an inflatable tent without
explaining what an inflatable tent is. |
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The main feature here is a tent that is
disposable/biodegradable, for which the inflatability then
adds the benefit of being a self-supporting structure
without the need for tentpoles, which tend not to be
disposable/biodegradable. |
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Your links only show inflatable tents, none of which are
disposable/biodegradable. |
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All tents are disposable. You just need to find a bin large enough to stuff it into. |
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i didn’t think this should be an m-f-d, so i gave a
bun for defending your idea . |
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In Israel we need the tent for protection from the sun in the
day, and then the solar heating wont work at night. Still you
get my vote, because its the first time I saw you. So a bit late
I wish to tell you welcome! |
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No, in 2013 I remarked on your instant freezer idea. So my
vote is just saying hi during the Covid epidemic, and that it's
not a completely bad idea, especially since it reuses the tent
as a garbage bag. Now there's environmental thinking! |
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