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Learn to Make A Thermal Mass Rocket Stove
Students will Build and Fire-up a Thermal Mass Rocket Stove in a Single Day -
See our current list of Rocket Stove Workshops for additional courses
| Price – $95 - Includes Workshop and Lunch. | At Midwest Permaculture in Stelle, IL |
| (Limit 24 Students per Workshop) | April 14, 2013 |
Standard wood stoves waste much of the heat and wood energy when they burn, with much of it going up the chimney as hot smoke. A rocket stove burns more efficiently – converting nearly all of the fuel into CO2 and water, including the smoke. It also stores it’s thermal energy in a “battery”, a bench that stores the heat from the fire and releases it slowly over the course of the day. The stove can burn both logs and scrap wood and the best part is, it can heat the same space as a regular wood stove with 1/4 of the wood!
Students Being Warmed by the Malchow’s Thermal Mass Rocket Stove
Stove made from scrap steel barrels, stovepipe, bricks and cob. Total price: $250
What students gain from this one day workshop:
- An understanding of the principles of a rocket stove and rocket stove mass heater (or thermal mass rocket stove)
- Poke around and fire-up the Malchow’s stove (seen in the pictures above)
- Learn to make cob from digging to application
- Experiment with making and firing-up one’s own model as seen on right
- As a group, we will assemble a thermal mass rocket stove, and fire it up…!!!
Schedule for the Day
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9:30 |
Registration |
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10:00 |
Classroom instruction – theory and examples |
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11:00 |
See and fire a finished stove – At the Malchows |
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12:00 |
Lunch |
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1:00 |
Build dry brick stoves |
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2:00 -4:00 |
Class builds a stove with mass heater |
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4:00 |
Fire up the stove |
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5:00 |
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About the Instructor
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Milton Dixon holds a PDC and earned his Permaculture Teaching Certificate from David Jacke, author of the two volume set, Edible Forest Gardens. Besides being Midwest Permaculture’s tech support he is an avid urban permaculturist and organizes the Chicagoland Permaculture Meetup. He has always had a fascination for fire and has built many rocket stoves, some successfully and some not, always learning how to do it better the next time.
Join us and learn how you can make one of these stoves for yourself!
Register online or Call Becky at 815-256-2215, voice message or text us at 815-782-2216.
Hi, I’m really hoping to be able to take this workshop I’m in Milwaukee is there anyone near me that would be going that I could catch a ride with I can pay half the gas cost
Hi Starr, I would speak with Becky at (815) 256-2215. She would have the best idea of what’s going on for carpooling. If that number doesn’t connect (the country phone system is troublesome sometimes) leave a message at (815) 782-2216 and we can call you back. – Milton
Thanks Milton, I did call her about that and she said she’d get back to me.
Starr
Will you be having an other Rocket Stove Workshop this year? I don’t think I could make this one.
We’ve got some additional dates coming soon…
Hi Frank… We have settled on a June 9th repeat of this workshop. Hope you can join us.
Is the size of the rocket stove in proportion to the size of the house that I want to heat?…..or does the stove have to be a certain size for it to function properly, regardless of the area that I am wanting to heat?
The short answer is yes it needs to be proportional, but rocket stove is more appropriate for room heating and not house heating. You may be able to alter that appropriateness with design. There is no theoretical limit but there is a functional limit to the size: too small and you just can’t burn enough wood, too big and it may be difficult to find parts for it or even to support the mass of the stove.