Wood Heat: Rocket Stove Mass Heater solution

 My friend Amir has a Zome Village Hipcamp North of Mt. Shasta.

https://www.hipcamp.com/california/georges-amir-kunzler/zome-village-group-campsite

I was thinking of camping there.

Objective

He asked me how I'd stay warm. I took it as a challenge. How can I stay warm from 6 pm - 6 am without having to wake up to feed the fire?

[ It's not the first time I've considered this question. I have a long-standing interest in aquaponics. One of the major cost of raising warm-water fish is the cost to warm the tank.]

Hot compost

I'm particularly fond of the idea of using hot compost to generate heat. A pile of manure and woody material of sufficient size (at least 4' x 4' to start) must be kept moist and it will reach 140 degrees, sufficient to sterilize weed seeds, and the end product is a valuable soil amendment. Although manure may be free, unless it is at hand there is a time and energy cost to transport it to the site. Minor maintenance includes keeping the pile moist and turning the pile once or more during the 4 to 6 weeks of composting, and building a new pile as needed.

Hot compost can directly heat a greenhouse, or living space, or heat indirectly with a heat exchanger. A properly maintained hot compost pile does not have an offensive odor.

Woody debris

Amir has a lot of woody debris on his property that needs to be cleared for fire safety. So there's plenty of fuel at hand.

Design criteria

Minimize the amount of fuel needed to burn.

Even where there is an abundance of fuel, there are still time and energy costs associated with collecting, storing, and preparing the fuel (reducing to usable size). Also, it takes time to tend a fire.

Minimize the burn time

To increase safety and reduce time that the fire must be monitored.

Minimize the smoke

Burning dry wood at a high temperature protects air quality.

Maximize the amount of heat generated

Preheat the air coming into the intake.

Maximize the amount of heat captured

Heat thermal mass, which is stable, rather than air, which is not.

Insulate

Insulate the thermal mass, and the human.

Human factors

Keep the operator dry, provide affordances to feed fuel.

Minimize ash

Dispose of ash properly. Ash makes a good insulation.

Safety

Isolate the fire from anything flammable, provide for water bucket and shovel.

Rocket stove

A rocket stove is simply a stove designed to channel air flow to maximize the burn, there are endless design variations.

The Kelly Kettle is one.

https://www.kellykettle.com/

Why buy when you can build?

I felt I could build a decent stove for less than what I would pay to buy.

This rocket stove video is among my favorites.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMhUFthG4bU

“8 Simple Rocket Stoves”

The 4x4 rocket stove

No stove is needed to create a rocket stove. Simply drill a chimney into a block of wood.

Burning pieces of 4x4 has numerous advantages: the fuel is compact, so it stores easily. It's clean (no barks, no bugs). Because of uniform size and material, we can estimate the burn time, a hour per inch of diameter. I used a 1-1/2" paddle bit. A drill press would help.

It has some disadvantages. It has to be purchased and transported, cut and drilled.

Duct rocket stove

Duct is available in 4”, 6”, and 8” diameters, with endless accessories. Advantages: inexpensive, readily available, easy to build and modify. Disadvantages: heavy, bulky, must be purchased, transported and stored.

This seems the preferred solution for this site. Purchase a chipper. Collecting and chipping fuel takes time. Consider periodically moving the stove to minimize fuel transport.

Identify the camping spot. Minimize the distance between the stove and the living space. And, provide for heat exchange between the hot water and the insulated living space.

Minimize the space I need to heat. Isolate sleeping space from living space.

Insulate with Reflectix and / or survival blanket.

Oils hold more heat

Oils hold more heat than water. Mineral oil is satisfactory. Specialty thermal oils are available. The thermal advantage does not justify the cost in my opinion.

Solution: A 20-gallon drum

Twenty gallons of water weighs 166 pounds, nearly as much as I do. A 20-gallon drum or tank of hot water should hold sufficient heat long enough to keep me warm during sleeping hours.

Southwest Oregon Was a Sea 65 Million Years Ago (Part II)

In the Late Cretaceous period (100 to 65 million years ago), southwestern Oregon was inundated by a shallow seaway, which deposited a layer of sandstones and mudrocks" ... very near my home. I visited the relics of this ancient sea, the "Ancestral Rogue River" in 2019, and wrote this blog post:

https://askdanshaw.blogspot.com/2019/05/southwest-oregon-was-sea-65-million.html

After the devastating #AlmedaFire in September, I re-visited the rock formation to see if the fire had exposed features that I had overlooked before. I was in luck. We found a very unusually shaped stone, perhaps shaped by human intervention, very much in the shape of a turtle shell.

I visited with Carolyn Brouillard, who asked me some #whatsavortex questions on video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J_cA7VNww0

Isis & the universal forces are leading me to Osiris

 Correspondence of the Day:

Dear Dan,

My name is N.  I was born in Russia, Siberia, near the lake Baikal.  I moved to the United States when I was 17 years old.  Currently I am living in [redacted] Florida. I was born June [-] 197[-].  I turned 4[-] years old this June, prior to my birthday I experienced psychosis.  It all started around March 24th and on June 2nd, I ended up in the hospital and was diagnosed with bipolar disorder.  Prior to that, I have never experienced anything like this nor was I ever diagnosed with bipolar.  Several days prior to my psychosis, through my mind I was speaking to what appeared to be Hermes.  I didn’t hear any voices nor saw anyone, I was just flooded with information and did some magic rituals, which I never did before, but it seemed like I knew exactly what I was doing.  On June 1st I went completely crazy and on June 2nd I ended up in the hospital, where I spent 3 days.  After I was released I had a clear mind, but the information was keep going through.  I learned that I was impregned as Isis and the universal forces are leading me to Osiris, that the Renaissance age is coming and what seems to be some religious changes.

Upon this day the information keep coming in and today it led me to you. As I am writing this to you, I can see how crazy it all sounds, but I am told to contact you, so here I am.

If you think this is all nonsense and craziness, I completely understand.  I haven’t told this to anyone, because I know how it all sounds, so I will take no offense if you won’t reply.

I thank you in advance for your time,

Kindly yours,

N.

Dear N.,

although you are having a spiritual emergency and having trouble integrating your new knowingness, you are not crazy.

Read Stanislav Grof: Spiritual Emergencies book.

Lake Baikal as you know is a geophysical-electromagnetic- energy vortex inhabited by shamans, and any indigenous people there would be able to help you see your experiences in a constructive, life-enhancing perspective.

Thank you for reaching out to me.

I can and will advise you on adjusting to your new reality.

You are not the only one who has been thru this process, others have gone before you and left signposts to facilitate your journey.

You journey can be blissful and superfluid. You do not have to go thru trials because of your expanded perceptions.

I have taken an oath to help people like you.

So ask me anything.

- Dan

Confirmation of 54 Mile Vortexes from Stonehenge & John Michell

Stonehenge is one of 10 monuments forming a decagon, at the center is a white-leaved Oak. In my book Stonehenge Gardening Tips: Using Earth Energies in Your Garden, you'll see how every element of Stonehenge -- and similar ancient monuments -- were designed to manipulate Earth energies. In my book US Vortexes 54 Miles Wide, I show how many, many vortexes appear as fractions of the Earth's polar circumference (25,920 miles). The radius of Stonehenge equals 54 feet.  John Michell writes in Confessions of a Radical Traditionalist that the distance from Stonehenge, or any of the 10 points of the decagon to the white-leaved Oak, equals precisely 1/400 of the polar circumference.

http://vortexmaps.com/   http://vortexmaps.com/  http://vortexmaps.com/

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