(27 October 2013, 01:13)Controversy Wrote: When SHTF the 1st thing im going to do is take out my oldmans wood stove. No offence guys but wood stoves are like a 4.0 litre gasoline engine with 3 turbos inside.
I will build a rocket mass heater asap!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoW-ICO83hM
Extremely fuel efficient and produce more heat than wood stoves.
Simple. In a wood stove you are not allowing gasification to happen and your letting those particles that create Syngas escape though the chimney. In the rocket mass heater the Syngas ignites .
In the UK, most people live in smoke control zones. If you are going to be fitting a stove in these areas, you have to fit a clean burning one - these burn off the gases.
A rocket mass heater - so long as you have lots and lots of mass - holds the heat in the building. However, a properly designed and build chimney breast will hold a hell of a lot of heat from a stove too.
Not so sure I build a rocket mass heater unless I was designing the rest of the structure around it, probably work out better money wise to buy a high efficiency stove.