Rocket Stove Workshop

Workshop on building a rocket stove with Niels Corfield. Soundtracked with Graham Burnett's "Permaculture Plot"

Visit Graham at http://www.spiralseed.co.uk/

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• Rocket
• Stove
• Permaculture
• Cooking
• Reuse
• Low-tech
• Appropriate
• Technology

[LondonPermaculture]

crappy comment

[robotnik77]

Is that rocket stove based on the same idea

as the GTZ rocket stove they are selling in

the 3rd world countries --- the stoves that

eliminate deaths from smoke & CO? Also, the

burnt fire stock (wood, etc) --- is the

leftover turned to agrichar/biochar that you

can use to enrich soil & sequester carbon?

[LondonPermaculture]

I'm not really familiar with the GTZ - but I think that it and this depicted here both use the principle of a well insulated combustion chamber that efficiently burns the fuel with minimum smoke.

[howshawthebrave]

Just ought to tell anyone watching this to be very careful not to use galvanised steel for any of the components as it produces zinc oxide gas when heated to high temp and the consequences of inhaling it are likely to be fatal.

[mesuno1]

I just used one of these on a school camp to make hot chocolate, tea and coffee for 50 soggy kids. Packs out a hell of a lot of heat (my petrol stove wouldn't come close to keeping up) and burns even wet or green twigs. Nice slide show right up to the bit where you used split kindling rather than all the twigs you were standing on which rather misses the point!

I hope you get a lot of use out of it, I know I will be getting loads out of mine.

[ronaldo77782]

Cool

[samljer]

great stove but this design is terribad.

off the top of my head, lower the exhause, and raise the stopper so the pots dont sink down.

thats very counter productive.

[The87wing]

crappy music- crappy stove

[Ja72corbin]

@howshawthebrave dito dont be stupid people spend the money and buy the black color pipe at a heating store or hardware . its just as thick and built to resist creosole and wont kill you!!

[eyechubcunt]

I would watch that no one breaths in the highly toxic fumes given off by the galvanizes ducting, during the first burns.

[mountainjustice]

@butopiatoo its for cooking

[slocar1]

I really liked the video stills and singing, great stove great idea glad to see you are enjoying your allotment, if we were spotted building something like this at our leisure garden site, the committee members would throw the rule book at us.

Too many rules and regulations, immagine getting complained to about weeds in me onion bed.

[sok8888]

Looks like there are lot of soot produced. I thought rocket stove is supposed to be clean?