I first came across Rocket Stoves a couple of weeks ago at Paul Wheatons friendly website. I still do not grasp completely how they work but I am learning a lot (and asking a lot of questions) … in other words educating myself Gasification Gasification is a word we’ve encountered many times in relation to [...]
Category Archives: Energy
Stoves Online UK A great resource for learning about the different elements that make up a heating system with a very rich offering of solutions if you happen to live in the UK.
Build It Solar A must read/visit/try/build/share website for ecologically aware do-it-yourselfers. The only shortcoming is the name because there is much more then "solar" in it.
3 Steps to Electricity Independence in Romania
Though living off-the-grid is tempting it probably isn’t as ecological as you may think it is. Electricity is an infrastructure that is best provided through collaborative systems instead of independent ones. It is unfortunate that so much of it is generated with an unnecessarily high ecological price – which is good enough reason to want [...]
Heating Resources
We want to have a really pleasantly warm house when it gets cold outside. Building with hemp insures that we enjoy a wonderfully insulated home. Now we need to deal with heat – which includes both environmental heating and water heating. In typically built houses which tend to be cold when it gets cold outside [...]
House Heating Requirements (revisited)
IMPORTANT: this note was added after the post was published but seemed important enough to be inserted at the beginning of the post. I am just now realizing that my perception of heating requirements are based on experience of poorly insulated homes. This is why I expect stoves to be lit numerous times a day. [...]
Are Alternative Energy Technologies Relevant?
We are spending a lot of time looking at potential energy solutions – solar, wind, hydro, geothermal … anything and everything. There’s a lot of knowledge to be acquired and there are a lot of companies looking to sell their products and solutions. The one thing they all have going for them is a promise [...]
US Department of Energy – Geothermal Heat Pumps A useful section from the US Department of Energy website explaining Geothermal Heating
Boiler Stoves UK Seems like a sister website to Stoves Online, which specifically explains how boiler stoves work and can be incorporated into a smart and efficient heating system.