Joe Higgs : a little history -
Rocket Stoves were invented to replace the poorly balanced cooking pot setting on the
3 - ROCK FIRE used indoors and out doors by approximately 30% of ALL the
people on the planet ! This was a greatly less smoky fire, that used fuel more efficiently, and reduced the large number of pneumonia type illnesses and cataracts among
groups adapting these technologies in third word countries ! ( Following this line of research is what brought me to Permies.com)
Pocket Rockets, Are also intended to be used exclusively out of doors, and burn so very hot at their base they have been known to 'set the blacktop on fire ' they are very good
for Picket Lines, Preppers and Zombie hunters! And Boy Scouts and Ice Fishers ! Use is totally out of doors ! - And they use a lot of fuel ,sending much of their heat
energy up
the chimney, just like conventional
Wood Space Heaters !
Rocket Mass Heaters R.M.H.s, Burn wood fuel at very high temperatures and very efficiently! The trick here is that R.M.H.s create such a combined 'draw' that the hot exhaust
gases can Flow horizontally through 30+ feet of ducting before being ducted to the outside of the building ! The use of a heat storing or THERMAL mass bench is the 'secret'
behind the creation of the super efficient and wood stingy R.M.H.
There is nothing in the original Rocket Stoves creation, that was centered around a more efficient way to introduce fuel and air flow together on a narrow and quite limited flame
front that would have lead automatically to a Heat Riser , this was a latter development which needed the further development of a Thermal Mass Storage Device to create the
"RocketMass Heater'' ! So -
1st) The rocket stove, for cooking and feeding your family on less fuel, and with less 'environmentally caused disease and damage' than the 'Traditional 3-Rock 'Fire !
2nd) The Pocket Rocket,for heating all outdoors, loved by outdoors people ,Scouts Ice fishers !
3rd) The R.M.H. For heating your home efficiently and on less wood, and feeding your house
Dragon !
The use of the term "Rocket Stove'' As a generic term for all forms of wood burning stoves in this family is unfortunate and is even contributed to by this
Permies.com Forum, and Forum Threads which directs you to 'Rocket Stoves and (rocket mass heaters,)' rather than the other way around !
I hopefully suggest that you retrieve Your copy of Ianto Evans' "Rocket Mass Heaters " from your Brother and re-read it, Most of the information I have shared
is clearly stated within these pages, I have probably read and re-read 'The Book' multiple times and can still glean facts with every reading ! For the Craft !
As always, your Comments and Questions are Solicited and Welcome Think like Fire!, Flow like a Gas!, Don't be the Marshmallow Big AL !
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