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Rocket mass heater in a new greenhouse.

 
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Hi all.

First all here the best wishes for 2024.

I am busy with a greenhouse, it is a bow version with special plastic.

Because a judge has ordered me to remove a (quite clean) woodstove I need to do it different, a rocket mass heater
in a greenhouse who warming also water what I pump into the home itselfs, I plan to use a car like system where there
is a room for savety.

I do now that a steam explosion is not what I want so I need to put the heat exchanger away from hot points in the stove,
down the barrel it is much cooler, or even the outlet where I set a insolated box where the exchanger takes heat, there
the temperature is max 150 degree or so. it go through pipes to the living room, through the wall, there I use old heavy
radiators, not convectors from the past, these are cast iron, keeping heat a long time.

Now nobody can forbid me anymore to use wood, special in this bad times I need a backup, also because I have atrosis
radiation heat is what I want.

Can somebody tell me of there are things done?

Thanks.

regards

 
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I can't answer your question though I thought I would bump your topic by suggesting that some folks might find these threads interesting:

https://permies.com/t/231395/Hoophouse-heat-Winter

https://permies.com/t/207431/rocket-mass-heater-greenhouse

I hope someone will step up to answer your question.
 
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This video just came out about an improvement made to the small Minnie Mouse Rocket Mass Heater in the Love Shack at Wheaton Labs.  They added a cob hat to the top of the barrel (with space to cook a pizza!) to keep the heat lower and allow the heat to linger longer.  I'm thinking about it for my garage.  It might work in a greenhouse, too.

 
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