Rocket Stove made with 16 Adobe Bricks-Video
Rocket Stoves
http://www.inriodulce.com/links/RocketStoves.html
Cooking your food or boiling water is for the most part one of those necessities. The most common method of cooking here is by using wood. Although there are numerous solar cookers, it is my opinion that they are just too much work and not that effecient to ever get locals to ever use them. Wood cooking is one of the primary reasons for deforestation so perhaps if we just show them more effecient ways to make their stoves, we could offset the current ways. Well there are ways to cook with wood that use 75% less than traditional ways and in half the time that also emit less smoke. In my opinion the rocket stove is the best and easiest option. So let's get to it!
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VIDEO:
Dr. Larry Winiarski makes a clean burning rocket stove using 16 adobe bricks at the Rotary International-sponsored Integrated Cooking Workshop in Tlautla, Mexico
How to Make a 16 Brick Rocket Stove
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSMR2ANIZ7E
Q & A's about Rocket Stove:
okay. how is it possible to make a fire without smoke?
In a rocket stove, the vertical chamber gets so hot that there is almost complete combustion and most if not all of the smoke gets burned up.
I'm sure a bonfire with those dozen twigs would've gotten the job done right quick, yeah?
no because a bon fire is wasted heat... Fire going all over the place. This is directed.
Would solid mud/clay bricks be okay to build this with?
Lighter bricks with organic matter (chopped straw, rice hulls) provide much better insulation than regular bricks. With better insulation you'll get a hotter chamber, a cleaner burn and less (or no) smoke.
Helpful Comments from video:
== I just went and purchased 15 full size fire bricks and 1 half size. Cut one of the full size ones in half....that was a bear even with a carbide blade....assembled the thing on the back patio and fired it up. So far, two pots of coffe and a big iron skillet full of fresh caught fish. This thing is neat.
== A rocket is not necessarily better than an electric or gas stove, but for people who can't afford or who don't have access to gas or electric stoves, a clean burning rocket stove is a great way for them to cook with small quantities of wood in a stove that produces very little smoke and burns quite hot.
== you can use it indoors, but it's not recommended. Even though there is little to no smoke, a rocket stove still produces a fire which burns up the oxygen and produces poisonous CO2. Check out other rocket stove sites on the internet for designs that include chimneys to vent the combusted gasses outside.
== Rocket stoves burn wood, which is renewable but since 2.5 billion people still cook every day over wood fires, the planet is running out of trees. Rocket stoves have such efficient combustion that they use only a tiny fraction of the wood used in a normal fire to generate enough heat to cook food or boil water.