I am in the middle of a M&A zoom call, but I hope to watch this in a few minutes. I live in a County where these hand-built stoves are illegal via regulation which makes me really sad. But, I hope that I can build one when in the future.
I insist that people do the same thing they did with pot. Nobody used pot until the government said it was okay. It doesn't matter if rocket mass heaters save the world, or save you thousands of dollars per year. What is important is that you are obedient to the government!
You may want to see if any type of masonry heaters are legal to use and perhaps have one built incorporating some of these design elements. Telling the government you want to build a rocket will likely be met with skepticism, but a masonry heater sounds more like something that can be permitted for a fee.
Some day I'll make it out there. Been lurking....shit...when was the bricks speech at that northwest permaculture convergence? I saw that on RUclips not long after it happened.
Works great on a micro level. Great work. Impossible to scale up, but after mankind is reduced to hovels and shacks, barely clinging to life under the boot of the federal government, this will will be welcome information.
They're not impossible to scale up; it just requires thinking about the fuel supply differently. One would need a faster feed rate, and an improved methodology of fuel storage. This is something that is quite easily doable. Other challenges would be things like warm-air distribution, which has honestly been solved several times over in several different ways.
In my view the biggest issue with scaling up is information. When I talk to others about rocket things I have to explain what a rocket stove is and how it works. If there were 10,000 people who build a rocket stove then used it for a year. I think about 1,000 would want to build more rocket things. Government is not the "bad guy" but ignorance and apathy are the bad guys.
They have already been successfully scaled up. It is called woodchip fueled district heating. In a wood fueled district heating plant, the fire is un an insulated box with good airflow, just like a rocket stove or mass heater, which leads to a complete burn. The heat is then extracted into a mass (water) which is pumped to the area of use through insulated pipes in order to minimise losses. Same principles, but with a different shape for the bigger scale.
Yes, Paul is a true innovator and a founding pioneer of "spreading this word" on this.
I really enjoyed the flow of this video. It was flawless! Well done!
I don’t know if there would be any interest but I’d love to hear about retired projects and what was learned from them.
That is some incredible output from your laboratory.
This is how real solutions are created! Non stop iterative experimentation in community!! One day rocket mass heaters will be a household given!!!
That's a lot of rockets! The season extender sounds super interesting..!
So many rockets!
I am in the middle of a M&A zoom call, but I hope to watch this in a few minutes. I live in a County where these hand-built stoves are illegal via regulation which makes me really sad. But, I hope that I can build one when in the future.
I insist that people do the same thing they did with pot. Nobody used pot until the government said it was okay. It doesn't matter if rocket mass heaters save the world, or save you thousands of dollars per year. What is important is that you are obedient to the government!
Make a deep fake AI video of Bill Gates selling you a Licence for it, then you will be OK
You may want to see if any type of masonry heaters are legal to use and perhaps have one built incorporating some of these design elements. Telling the government you want to build a rocket will likely be met with skepticism, but a masonry heater sounds more like something that can be permitted for a fee.
love this! So many great designs
That's a lot of rockety things
Some day I'll make it out there. Been lurking....shit...when was the bricks speech at that northwest permaculture convergence? I saw that on RUclips not long after it happened.
In Montana 🤗
Very nice overview of rocket heaters and stoves!
Great video, love to see this!
Works great on a micro level. Great work.
Impossible to scale up, but after mankind is reduced to hovels and shacks, barely clinging to life under the boot of the federal government, this will will be welcome information.
They're not impossible to scale up; it just requires thinking about the fuel supply differently.
One would need a faster feed rate, and an improved methodology of fuel storage. This is something that is quite easily doable.
Other challenges would be things like warm-air distribution, which has honestly been solved several times over in several different ways.
In my view the biggest issue with scaling up is information. When I talk to others about rocket things I have to explain what a rocket stove is and how it works. If there were 10,000 people who build a rocket stove then used it for a year. I think about 1,000 would want to build more rocket things. Government is not the "bad guy" but ignorance and apathy are the bad guys.
They have already been successfully scaled up. It is called woodchip fueled district heating. In a wood fueled district heating plant, the fire is un an insulated box with good airflow, just like a rocket stove or mass heater, which leads to a complete burn. The heat is then extracted into a mass (water) which is pumped to the area of use through insulated pipes in order to minimise losses.
Same principles, but with a different shape for the bigger scale.