wood heat – Homesteading and Permaculture by Paul Wheaton
385 – Uncle Mud – part 3
<p>Paul continues his conversation with Chris McClellan aka Uncle Mud about Rocket Mass heaters. They start this podcast talking about the Minnie Mouse, who now lives in the Love Shack. She’s a rocket mass heater contained inside a barrel, inside a wooden structure. Peter cleverly lined the back of the barrel very tightly with bricks, so that the stove doesn’t radiate a bunch of heat backwards to the wall. Thus, the heat shield is built in – no metal or brick had to be put over the wooden wall. Mud points out that this heat shield is also functi...

