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Peter Chauffeur wrote:My First Rocket Stove Fabrication!
Hello! I have completed my First Prototype Rocket Stove. It is capable of heating a 2000 square foot home and burns about 1.25 pounds of wood pellet fuel an hour. It is designed to run for hours at a time without fussing with it and requires no electricity to operate. It has unique feature that uses supersaturated steam to help with a cleaner burn and regulate the intense burn chamber temperature. The refractory acts as a mini thermal mass and stays warm for about 3 hours after the pellets burn off. The stove is started up in the morning using a propane torch and is shut down at nighttime. This stove has run for over two years now. I originally posted the build on Instructables for a metal build contest and it got 10k views in the month I had it on their site. I decided to take it down because I didn’t feel it was the appropriate site. I know that wood pellet isn’t exactly “salt of the earth “ homesteading but it is using a renewable resource. One would have to make a larger burn chamber for split wood.
Mike Haasl wrote:I just listened to the Allerton Abbey ATI podcast and they're wishing they had a way to provide heat for an experiment. I'm wondering if there would be a way to make a rocket heater (likely no mass?) that you can have on a trailer or sled and just move to the place where you need heat. Set it up outside and run some lines into the building to make heat.
I'm assuming the lines would have to be filled with something that can handle 0F temperatures when not in use and be decent at transferring heat at rocket temps. I'm picturing a vented/open 20 gallon tank of magic juice on a rocket heater. A little pump shoots the juice down flexible lines into the workshop, shed or house that needs heat. In the building is a radiator and fan to blow the heat into the space. In a crazy world a TEG (thermo electric generator) could provide the power for the pump and fan.
Brilliant or silly?