The Korean stove

How does this work? The Korean build this massive flooring channel stove with a tiny chimney.

 

Von, what exactly is your question? The video seems to show how it works.

I would be careful cooling down the smoke of a not rocket fire like this, creosote etc. will build up and require maintenance.

It makes me wonder if such a system could be made with rocket mass heater materials and techniques, for instance using cob or adobe in place of modern materials. However it is inspiring to see, and I have thought about making such a system myself!

M, it's basically a big stratification chamber. So I don't see why it wouldn't be possible implementing it with a rocket powering it.
It would probably have to be a big one in order to put out enough energy to heat up such a big slab. And it would be difficult to start when cold. But I think it could be done.

Maybe this sort of system only gets fed every two days or so?

It's interesting to see how the two, relatively similar systems were developed by these different cultures, west and east--in western cultures people are used to sitting on something raised up, whereas in some eastern cultures it can be more common to sit on the floor, on mats, cushions, etc. Though the Chinese Kang system is more of a heated bench similar to a rocket mass heater, but (as I understand it) without the rocket element and significantly bigger.

My thought is that rocket systems are likely not used traditionally because historically, the cost of the metal parts would be prohibitive. Except I don't recall batch systems using a ton of metal, but I am not entirely clear on how they work either...

M Ljin wrote:My thought is that rocket systems are likely not used traditionally because historically, the cost of the metal parts would be prohibitive. Except I don't recall batch systems using a ton of metal, but I am not entirely clear on how they work either...

You can build a perfectly good rocket using various materials - actually metal isn't the best as I understand it because you want an insulated firebox to get the high temperatures for a really efficient burn, and metals will fail in the hot oxidising atmosphere (like the wood does).
Even on a clean burn, you will want to access the channels for ash clean out though.

Benjamin Dinkel wrote:it's basically a big stratification chamber

If we look at it like that, the possibilities are indeed interesting Although you'd have to tune it to avoid the draft stalling I expect.