Rocket Stove Tea

A cup of tea made on a make-shift brick rocket stove.

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• rocket
• stove
• tea

[TonyKaku]

It looks like it worked great!

I'd like to build one into a thermal mass stove to heat my (hopefully to be built) house. I've also considered the idea of building a hypocaust, which would be much cheaper to build than radiant floor heating using pipes of water.

[unicycleextremist]

Ianto Evans has a book called Rocket Stoves to Heat Cob Buildings (which is in second edition, now called Rocket Mass Heaters: superefficient woodstoves you can build) and he talks a little about hypocaust either in that book or in his cob building book. Have you checked them out? pretty amazing information. i've also looked into a few designs to use the rocket stove to heat water as well as mass using a copper tube as a heat exchanger. i would love to hear more about your project.

[TonyKaku]

Is that your rocket stove?

[unicycleextremist]

yeah. its only the inside part - the fire box. i built it real quick out of dry stacked bricks just to experiment and see how it would burn. it burned pretty good :)

[TonyKaku]

:D Actually, I picked up the pdf version yesterday. Thanks though.

Heating water is a pretty neat idea, and I (and no doubt others) had the idea for rocket-stove heated radiant floor heating system. I think a hypocaust would be easier, though.

I'll surely detail what I'm doing at

permaculturetokyo(dot)blogspot­(dot)com

I'd love to have you check us out!