posted 12 years ago
I can see why it would work... The entire thing is sloped upwards, so it is one big chimney.
I hadn't thought of that. It's a pretty genius idea, actually. You could have a burn chamber directly in a trombe wall with pipes that snake their way up to the roof... It would produce a mass heater without having to have a heat-shedding barrel to produce the "drive" of the rocket stove.... And it would theoretically pass code because it would exit at the highest point of the building....
It would have to be sloped just right to get the exhaust hot enough for the reburn, but I don't see any reason why it couldn't be done. Think I would put together a test prototype in SolidWorks and see what FloWorks says about it...