Sentences with phrase «rocket stove»

But besides building a nice fire to keep warm, or using a DIY rocket stove, sometimes it's nice to bring some heat into a chilly tent.

If you like this ingenious low - work chicken tunnel garden system, then you'll most likely dig this footage from the same folks of a DIY water heater using rocket stove principles.

On the cost side, you're talking about rocket stoves being an order of magnitude cheaper to manufacture and being locally manufacturable which means local employment.

I've posted before on the incredible efficiency of rocket stove heaters, but it's not just the amount of fuel they use that makes them remarkable — it's the type of fuel.

More on Rocket Stoves Rocket Mass Heaters Slash Fuel Use (Video) Building a Wood - Burning Rocket Mass Heater.

It also releases a fraction of the amount of carbon monoxide — less than half that produced by a typical rocket stove — and much less soot, making it more environmentally friendly.

And even stoves like rocket stoves that are capable of cooking similarly to a traditional stove require retraining for cooks.

It's Stoveman, a four - part video series documenting the efforts of two young men who are part of a «low profit» business aimed at providing efficient rocket stoves to poor households in struggling places.

Interest in rocket stoves is growing, and with good reason, as they're fast, efficient, and cleaner - burning than most other options.

I've seen rocket stoves built from many simple, recycled materials - from old tin cans to AC ducts.

(Video) Rocket Stoves Aid Relief in Haiti

As this clip from Geoff Lawton's Urban Permaculture DVD shows, rocket stoves work best on thin bits of wood, which makes them ideal for utilizing scrap wood waste and / or tree prunings and coppiced wood.

Here's a little more from the ever - informative Wikipedia about Rocket Stoves and their benefits:

Every Family Stay program includes: harvesting food from the garden, cooking on a rocket stove, carving spoons and eating with them, grinding acorns and baking bread, using a composting toilet and enjoying a solar shower.

A rocket stove will cook hotter and faster than a traditional stove and if you're not ready for that you can easily burn food.

The Biofuels Section has design and build information on veggie oil, bio diesel, making and using ethanol, methane generators, wood gas vehicles, masonry heaters, rocket stoves, wood water heating, and heat from compost.

Build a Rocket Stove» Transition Culture - Iceweasel.

Covering rocket mass heaters, rocket stoves, hot water and a collection of techniques to make wood burning stoves about ten times more efficient.

I build small wood stoves / rocket stoves.

Designed as an efficient alternative to the typical 3 - stone fire, the rocket stove was apparently invented by Dr Winiarski of the Aprovecho Research Centre, a non-profit dedicated to developing low tech appropriate technology solutions for heating and cooking in the developing world.

Because these qualities improve local air quality, and discourage deforestation, the rocket stove has attracted the attention of a number of Appropriate Technology concerns, which have deployed it in numerous third - world locales (notably, the Rwandan refugee camps).

From the groups that I have met and been involved in, there seems to be an inherent interest in the low - tech, appropriate technology type solutions — be it vermiculture, organics or rocket stoves — and a mistrust of many things high tech or market driven, from electric cars to photovoltaics.

Yet strangely, it seems we have covered very little about Rocket Stoves.

The Justa Stove [1], for example, is a cousin of the rocket stove adapted for indoor use and family cooking needs.

More: University of Nottingham & SCORE photo: SCORE Alternative Energy New Biomass Cookstoves Significantly Reduce Fuel Requirements, Indoor Air Pollution More Efficient Cookstoves Could Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 18 % Rocket Stoves: Build You Own Ultra-Efficient Cook Stove (Video)

While it contains a «rocket elbow» (the working core of a Rocket Stove), it differs in that it contains a flat griddle surface and a simple smokestack.

Rocket Stoves: Simple, Efficient Wood Burners Generally speaking, TreeHuggers are fans of efficiency, and we are obsessive about recycling.

The only thing I can think of is that highly flammable pallet lumber and rocket stoves are not a good mix, or that it would be nice if it kept the rain out.