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!!!! solving the biggest carbon problem in a cold climate - webinar with Alan Booker

 
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Happy 2026 permies community!
To celebrate a new year we are sharing with you Alan Bookers recorded webinar on

Carbon Negative Mass Heaters for free!




presented by  Alan Booker

Executive Director of the Institute of Integrated Regenerative Design


Alan Booker covers, from a scientific basis, how a home heat paradigm inclusive of a Rocket Mass Heater can be carbon negative.  
Includes a full 133 minutes of presentation, along with a 49 page .pdf file of Alan's slides and data.



Click the image to watch at youtube;


Click Here to learn more about rocket mass heaters and get movies and plans.
 
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Very useful and compelling presentation on ECOEI ie source  based energy cost comparison with RMH.
Some questions that resulted for me...
1. what was the climate zone and  therefore heating degree days of  the test site in case study? (that yielded 3KBTU/yr energy demand for heating.)
2. What costs were included in the poplar coppice wood fuel source? labour to cut/harvest/stack?
3. how could the super hot fuel gas be used to heat hot water or  drive a small steam generator? Is that really good idea for generating electricity off grid?  Hot water could be piped to radiators in a house with rooms divided by walls and doors, even on different floors.
 
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Very interesting, thank you!
If I understand that carbon negative argument correctly, it is that coppiced trees sequester enough carbon in their root systems that even harvesting a certain percentage of the biomass leaves you with net negative carbon emissions. If that is correct, would any clean burning wood heater be carbon negative? Even if it takes more wood, that just means more coppiced land =more sequestered carbon, yes?
 
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I agree. Here's the link: http://stoves2.com
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