Paul Wheaton gives us a video tour of 12 different Rocket Stove Mass Heaters and their components. He also posted a summary of the Pyromania Workshop he attended at “Cobville“. These are great videos for getting to know some of the intricacies of the rocket stove while they are built. Follow the rocket stove discussion at Permies.com
Solunit Rocket Mass heater
This year I created another rocket stove mass heater. This time with the benefit of experience. I have to admit, when I constructed the Moonunit Rocket, I was flying by the seat of my pants. Guess it was a big experiment, but then again, so was this one!
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The Cob Mob, Karyn Stillwell Temple and Jason Temple, retrofitted their little cottage’s sheet metal fireplace with a Rocket Stove thermal mass heater.
The stove features a heated day bed/sitting platform and utilizes the existing chimney flue.
“The heated day bed/seat coming out into the room works well for this space; it gently partitions the room into two spaces. At the end of a hard day’s work the day bed is THE place to find me sprawled out on my back, healing my sore muscles. Our heat seeking Rhodesian Ridgeback puppy also covets the stove and spent every winter evening laying on it when we weren’t. In this photo he is forgoing the soft pillows in favor of the serious heat coming through the blanket (necessary after 4 hours of firing). This picture was actually taken the morning after a firing, everything is still hot.” – Jason Temple
Karyn and Jason live in Australia, where they share their knowledge and passion for cob. They offer design consultation and assistance to those involved with natural building projects, and work with schools and community groups to develop cob projects that improve their local environment, get people working together and having fun.
See more photos at their Stoves and Ovens page »
Oh, there are many neato things about rocket stoves. Efficient burning; the heating of a cob bench ( that makes you feel so good ); the sculptural shapes. Nothing so far as amazing as this… Your tea doesn’t get cold!
I’m a fan of tea. Seems like you have to drink it while it’s warm and there’s only a short window of time where it’s at the perfect temperature. Not on top of the rocket stove.
I boiled the water in a tea kettle, poured it in the cup and left the cup on top of the stove and every time – Mmmmm warm. Progressively warm tea. What a joy!
Donkey’s dual rocket stove
I’m thinking about my next rocket stove, planning, drawing, scrounging and researching rocket stove mass heaters. While surfing the interweb I visited rocketstoves.com to see if there was anything new. I found a link to the rocket stove forum at Rocket Stoves… Experimenters corner. Thanks to Donkey for setting this up. I look forward to reading through the posts.
