Up-to-date Picture of Above Stove at Bottom of this Post All of this tonage of wood then needs to be hauled out of the woods, dumped or stacked somewhere, then loaded back into a truck for delivery to be driven to someone’s home (a lot more energy) and then unloaded and stacked again for winter use. What I am talking about are the large hardwood trees with trunks and large branches which are typically chainsawed to length and then split to fit into a wood burning stove. The big thing for us, living here on the prairie in Illinois surrounded not by woods or forests but by corn and bean fields, is the very real shortage of easily available firewood. Burns cleaner than any wood stove ever made.Allows you to easily burn sticks, twigs and branches instead of just large chunks of firewood.Burns less than 1/4 the amount of wood you typically burn.Imagine having a wood burning stove in your home that: Wayne took one of our PDC courses and was inspired by the rocket stove concept ( See the illustration and links below).īev and Wayne have been sharing their adventure with us and we are very excited about the possibilities. Not long ago, our friends and neighbors, Bev and Wayne, started to build a thermal mass rocket stove in their living room. The exhaust system of Bev and Wayne’s stove before cobbing it over into a bench for heat extraction. The Key? They burn the wood, smoke and gasses at very high temperatures…SAFELY! Very…very… efficient at converting wood into clean heat!īottomline: They burn 1/4 of the wood to generate the same heat from a conventional wood stove and the outgases are 90% cleaner as well.Relavtively simple to understand, construct and use.So, we have included them in our overall design, especially for Earthcamp Village, because they are: Whereas wood gasification turns wood scrap into a flammable gas to run engines (generating electricity power and heat), a thermal mass rocket stove simply turns scrap wood into heat…. We cover the foundations of rocket stove building at every Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) course we host. Why Thermal Mass Rocket Stoves are part of This Permaculture Design
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