It's that time of year to think of wood heat

in #homesteading • 5 years ago

It's the time of year to put up your firewood. And as you might be bringing in yet another truckload, you might be thinking of ways that you can get more heat out of less wood.

A rocket mass heater is:

  • cheap to run. About a tenth the cost of natural gas, electric or conventional wood heat.
  • clean. They emit about a hundredth of the smoke of a conventional wood stove.
  • good for the environment. Less than 2% of CO2 emissions of natural gas or electric heat. Can reduce your carbon footprint as much as parking 7 cars.
  • sustainable. It uses a renewable fuel which is easy to find and store.
  • cheap to build. About $200 to $600.
  • quick to build. Often built in a weekend
  • luxuriant. Like the luxury of a heated floor but without all that standing.

We videoed a bunch of workshops and mashed them into dvds

https://richsoil.com/wood-heat.jsp

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     5 years ago  

    You've been visited by @minismallholding from Homesteaders Co-op.

    Those are some fantastic looking rocket mass heaters at the end of the video. They must be a real boon in cold countries. We don't have a particularly cold winter here in South Australia, so it might overheat our house. Our standard woodburner is already pretty efficient at heating for the temperatures we have, but I find myself longing for a colder climate now, just to have an excuse to install one of those rocket mass ones.

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     5 years ago  

    Sold I want one! Just need some land and my earthship and i'm there 💯🐒

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