by Oz Rocket » Sun Feb 15, 2015 5:14 pm
Well this wasn't where I thought I'd put up my first post, but the topic is of interest so why not 'jump-in'
My nick is 'Oz Rocket' which is really about my interest in 'Rocket Stove Technology'
Dr Larry Winiarski invented the rocket stove some years ago and the development of the technology has been furthered by the Aprovecho Research Centre (and many others since) and even entered into mainstream as being the stove technology behind the Biolite Range of hiking/camping products. It's a massive topic and I haven't scratched the surface, nor can I hope to in a single post.
Ok, the thing is this technology is being developed to assist third world countries replace the very common but extremely toxic 'three stone Fire'. The technology really lends itself to building and operating stoves, ovens, bread ovens, water heaters, space heaters, food drying, Central heating, etc, etc. for people 'off-grid' the technology offers many worthwhile benefits.
Anyway, that's a very long and convoluted answer/suggestion to the question of heating a wash off-grid.
It's easy-peasy with rocket stove technology.
Before I get jumped on, I will go to the noob's thread and fill out an introduction, just not yet.
I'm moving house next weekend and being a Tradie and a builder, I have a dozen truckloads of stuff to move, and that's just to clean out the shed's. Somewhere in there is my reflux still and boiler and next project will be converting it to use rocket stove technology. I'm a reasonable welder and fabricator, so it will be a shotgun type heat-exchanger built into the base of the keg/boiler, but as they say in the movies.... That's another story...
PS. The really stunning aspect of all rocket stove technology is that it's all open source- well from Aprovecho anyway...
I strongly suggest looking at their downloadable library... There's a lot of really good information available if your friend has any interest in looking further into this. But be warned, it's very, very addidictive...