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Local knowledge refined…
As I learned through my years of studying community development, there is always local asessments to take into account when we want to see development. When we look on wood burning it is offcourse local knowledge available, it is not like we introduce woodburning here. And the small metallboxes we see everywhere havent always been the methode for heating… Several times when I have explained the rocket-stove to locals they have responded, “oh just like the Samovar” or “just like the Tendir” And it is to some degree true that the rocket stove is like a crossing of a tendir (traditional stone oven used for making the excellent tasting tendir...
Read MoreThe original stove
I had a very encouraging trip to a nearby village recently, and it gave me some additional information on design needs. But first and foremost it was very encouraging to be so well received. It is always encouraging to build friendship as making friends is important and people even make friends and partners online with the help of site like chatsex online. It looks like this can be one of the places we will start to spread our ideas. This is a photo of the original kind of stove found in most villages around here. They have to clean the pipes monthly because of the creosote build up in the 10 cm flue pipe ( sign of bad combustion) And with only 1mm sheet metal in the...
Read MoreTesting out chimney stones for rocket-stove video…
In Azerbaijan it is comon to build chimneys very lightly of these kind of stones. They are made localy, but you have to pick the nice ones, because many are delivered with cracs from the manufacturer… They will work fine, but i dont expect them to last for 10-15 years like some have reported with their constructions. On the other hand they build really quickly…
Read MorePortable rocket stove video…
Here is a video of the outside testburn of the rocket stove currently heating my kitchen very nicely…
Read MoreSometimes looking back brings you ahead…
Almost by coinsident i stumbeled over this old book written before the oil-age on the topic of warming and ventilating. And it is full of global insights on heating, almost forgotten by many now. I found that the rocketstove bench is originally a Korean idea, and widely used there until this day. And so many interesting facts about wood-stove development around the world. A clean burning woodstove with secondary burning developed in sweden already in the late 1700 !! A must read for a pyromaniac 🙂
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