Product Description

This little book is about a revolutionary concept in wood burning stoves that ensures almost completely clean combustion with high efficiency use of the heat produced. Rocket Stoves are still experimental in that probably fewer than a hundred were in regular use by early 2004, but some have performed well, daily, for more than a decade. They save a lot of fuel, and completely rearrange our concepts of house heating, of wood burning, and of dependency on coal, oil, hydro or nuclear power for our comfort. Rocket Stoves can be built at home by relatively unskilled people. Rocket Stoves are the ultimate in efficiency, reducing wood to carbon dioxide and water vapor, with a little ash. Coupled with heat storage in a cob bench bed or floor they provide gentle heat for up to two days without an all night smoldering fire that poisons the neighbors and heats mainly the sky. They are quite safe for small children as there are no dangerously hot surfaces. Rocket stoves work by burning wood in a completely new way then providing almost all their heat for cooking, toasting, baking, or heating water or people. They keep you snug. Previously unskilled people can build them of local and recycled materials at almost no cost. Rocket Stoves incorporate the heat storage of a $10,000 mass stove, the convenience of a woodfired cookstove, the efficiency of a pellet furnace and limitless flexibility in design, all without moving parts, fans or motors. Here, for the first time, is published the story of the Rocket Stove, with theories and detailed descriptions and illustrations of how we and some of our friends have built successful models. We invite and encourage you to test these methods and use your pyro-wisdom and creativity to come up with your own version, with the caution that this science is speculative because there has been little development of it until now.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1745215 in Books
• Published on: 2004
• Binding: Paperback
• 58 pages

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I was intrigued by the idea of building a rocket stove after reading about them in Ianto Evans' The Hand Sculpted House. This little rocket stove book is written in a clear and comfortable way that made a novice like me feel like I could build one competently. The illustrations are very well done, too. I'm thoroughly enjoying the rocket stove/cob bench now in my office. If you're interested in natural building, saving resources (including money) this book is a must have.