![]() I have been reading about your wood stove considerations and was ready to post a link to the rocket stove. Your goals and execution with "The Walden Effect" are impressive. I recently discovered your blog and am catching up on it. Of course the first step to efficient heating is good insulation. I found the California wood burning handbook informative. ![]() Of course googling for 'clean combustion of wood' gives a ton of links. You might find this article on clean combustion of wood of interest. Combustion efficiency is influenced by a lot of things like temperature, airflow and air temperature. The latter is pretty efficient water is a much better heat transport medium than air.įor heat transfer to be efficient, the temperature difference between the fire and the environment must be as high as possible, that is simple thermodynamics. You can make the stove a big heat-sink, and have it radiate into the room and/or use the gases to heat a medium (usually water) that you can pump around the house and heat the rooms you need heated. So you want those gases as hot as possible with as little fuel as possible.įor a space heater, you want to extract as much heat from the fire and exhaust gasses as possible. Remember that there are marked differences between a stove (where you want to put the heat in the stuff you're cooking) and a space heater (where you want to heat the house).įor a stove, it is the hot exhaust gasses flowing along the pan that heat it. Have any of you built or used a rocket stove? What did you think Skills (the part that scared us off building our own initially.)Īlternatively, we could buy one pre-made for around $125. Like a stovepipe to me, suggesting that we might not need welding One quite cheaply, though it would take quite a bit of trial and error ![]() The video I've embedded above is well worth watching if you'd like toīuild your own rocket stove. Of a summer kitchen in our long term plan - something I want anywayīecause I always dread turning on the stove on a sweltering summer day. So, in practice, they'll probably be part Rocket stoves inside because they're basically an efficient Too? I'd never tell someone in a third world country to instituteĮnvironmentally friendly measures I wasn't willing to put into practiceīefore I knew it, I'd penciled a rocket stove onto our ten year planĪnd started researching. I love the concept, butĬan't help wondering - why don't we promote rocket stoves in the U.S. To need very little wood in order to heat up yourĬook pot, so trees get left in place. Of firewood harvesting on native forests. Introduced to several third world countries to help lower the pressure
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