Allegedly, This Stove Can Boil Water Using 50-70% Less Firewood.
by Aggravating_Cap_1762
Allegedly, This Stove Can Boil Water Using 50-70% Less Firewood.
by Aggravating_Cap_1762
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It’s a standard rocket stove using bricks…nothing extraordinary.
it’s just a draft fireplace. The rising air feeds fresh air to the fire. This makes the fire burn hotter, more completely, with less smoke.
Coat the bricks in clay or mud for extra efficiency.
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I’m not sure those are the correct bricks to be building a stove
50% less than what? Modern wood stoves are super efficient at turning wood to heat with very little waste.
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Yes. A rocket stove. This is ancient technology, there’s nothing “alleged” about it.
Built a bit bigger this might be good for cooking down maple sap for a small batch syrup operation. But other than that I don’t see a practical use. If I need to cook food I use the charcoal grill or my kitchen stove.
Thats how Aztec cook
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I mean, you are just deflecting heat towards the pot. You can get even higher levels of efficiency if you encase the bricking in heat refractory cement.
The basics of an oven are the basics of an oven.
Townsend and primitive technology has some pretty good vids about furnaces from scratch.
If someone wanted to mortar the bricks down what would be best ?
A brick or two over the intake would probably improve combustion a noticeable amount, by helping the air heat before combustion. This is an effective simple design for getting most of the benefit of a conventional rocket stove design, but the material (while very low cost) isn’t optimal for the riser/combustion chamber getting hot, that brick probably never stops sucking up heat, if just boiling a liter or two. A better insulator (cob with vermiculite), or a thinner heat tolerant masonry with less mass to warm up, would help the combustion chamber to burn more efficiently sooner.
Still a very good way to go, I’ve just been working on a form to pour a rocket stove core recently, so I’ve been reading about this a lot lately.
Wastes bricks instead of wood. Firebricks are a thing, but that’s not what he’s using. In not too long, thermal stress will start cracking those.
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Less firewood than what? That’s the important part. Probably less than a regular campfire.