did someone say ROCKET MASS HEATER !!??!!! 🥳🤩🙂
Want pictures and lovely stories about it ☺️
Discussion
On the road until Saturday night as a trucker, but will look for a pic or two on my phone. I built it about two years ago and is our primary heat source in winter.
We do have a propane wall heater that we supplement with a bit when really cold for long periods of time… and I got 2 Antminer S9’s and configured them as space heaters this winter… but, even buying hardwood sawmill trimmings from a local Amish sawmill, the RMH costs about $8-10/ year to run all winter! 😍🥰
Thanks, very much appreciated!
Yeah the cost of running it is so low, I intend to build one and would be able to run it on olive prunings.
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#permies #rocketmassheater Maybe not the neatest pics, but one shows the brick bell and wood feed. The other shows a rack I threw together to hold maybe 7-10 days worth of wood if burning 1-2x daily, and the brick bench.
If/when I redo it, will rebuild it as an 8” system instead of 6”, and make the bench a little longer but a fair amount wider, to capture and hold more heat. So efficient though! 😍 My wife even says it is really easy to light and after not being too sure about it in the beginning, now she just loves it!
Cool! Looks nice and tiny, I like the design. I have a tiny house but I would also choose 8" I hear Paul Wheaton repeating how much better it runs, and, am hoping for the added mass to help cool in summer. But we'll see, still sokewhat further in the future...
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Paul’s 8” system in the Fischer Price house IS very nice! I spent two weeks at Wheaton Labs in 2019… both 6” and 8” work well. J-tubes are more efficient and (I think) easier to light than batch boxes.
Below 4-5” systems are MUCH finickier… too much laminar flow/resistance along the edges of the path of gas flow. 10” or larger gets TOO hot…
cool! 😮 I wish to visit Wheaton labs someday, it is a bit harder coming from the EU. Else I would hve been an ant for many years...
Yeah, I was initially thinking about a 4" system but I dont need that extea finiky whatsha-ma-call-it. 8" is proven and just works, so I will go with that. My next steo in this is to build an outside J-tube #RMH but need to get the riser materials first...
So many wonderfull projects, quite addictive, and each steps makes me pollute less and increases my happyness.
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