Stevie Smith

Curious if anyone has tried building a RMH heater inside of a sea (shipping) container? I am thinking that is might be a good place for one inside a greenhouse. The all steel container still allowing radiant heat, but the container giving the RMH protection during warmer months when the plastic is removed from a hoop style greenhouse. Any pros or cons you can think of most appreciated.

From a quick search it appears that wrapping copper tubing around the rocket mass heater barrel is not a good idea per se. But has anyone just made a RMH with just a couple more barrels (one sitting on each side of the heater barrel) and filled them with water? I possibly want to use the water in these two adjacent barrels in my greenhouse (pumped out to the greenhouse at least a couple times a day).

The technical ideas about the microphones sound good. Getting better microphones is always good.

Not sure how you are doing the filming or the editing, but can you do the filming with the regular audio and then go and record the sounds of the working you do want in the background separately? And then add in the sounds into your video using a multitrack audio software like Audacity (free) https://sourceforge.net/projects/audacity/. Or a top of the line audio editor like Sound Forge. https://www.magix.com/us/music/sound-forge/. Used along with a good quality video editing software, e.g. Sony Vegas Movie Studio, you can pretty much add in and delete the sounds you need in your video(s).

Not necessarily modern suggestions, but a book by John S. Taylor, A Shelter Sketchbook, provides a section on how many folks in many cultures around the world have included designs/features in their shelters to keep cool.