One blogger took a super-efficient stove
design that's been embraced in the developing world and applied it to
heating up his living room. Read about how he did it here.
Fri, Oct 26 2012 at 2:04 PM
Photo: Yuichiro Haga/Flickr
I'm a huge fan of the rocket stove (I wrote about it earlier this year),
a hyper-efficient design that excels at burning at very hot
temperatures. Rocket stoves burn at much higher temperatures than your
standard wood-stove or fireplace and, as a result, emit much cleaner
exhaust. You can burn just about anything in a rocket stove too, from
straw to dried dung to small bundles of twigs. This flexibility,
combined with the stove's brutal efficiency, has made them a popular
choice in the developing world, where they replace older conventional
stoves that are smoky and inefficient. Smoky kitchens are no joke in many parts of the world
and negatively impact the health of millions of people. Rocket stoves
means people can breathe easier as they prepare food and have to work
less to procure fuel.
I stumbled across this great article showing how one blogger installed a rocket stove heater
to help heat his home. Rob the blogger is a woodworker who had an
ever-growing pile of small scrap wood accumulating in his workshop.
Instead of mulching the scraps or sending them off to a landfill, he
wanted to extract as much energy as possible out of his pile and
converted an old water tank to a rocket stove.
Swing over to I Will Try to read about his project and to see more photos.
If you have a few minutes, watch this delightful little video showing a rocket stove heater in action.
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