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Thought you might get a kick out of this, It was originally designed to be a diner off route I-40 in Yucca AZ. but I don't think it ever opened. It is now a private residence.

I've been reading up on those, and thought of you when I did. I don't recall how big your GH is planned to be, but from what I've read those Rocket Mass Heaters are only good for about 1,100 sq ft, and that is in a pretty well insulated building. They also seem to need a fair bit of attention.

One of my projects is to make one that can also burn waste oil which would, in theory, cut down on the amount of supervision required. So many projects, so little time...

Keep us updated if you do experiment with the Rocket Mass Heaters though.

TD

It's around 900 square feet inside the dome area. My thoughts on the heater would be to made a hopper for it and feed it wood chips and computer control it. We have a tree cutting company down the road and I can get an unlimited supply of chips.

It's going to be a big experiment...may take a year or 2 to figure out how to heat it properly.

It's been quite awhile since posting any info about the geodesic dome greenhouse. This spring had more rain then usual and the site was too wet to run heavy equipment through. We're hoping to start digging for the footings in next week or so.

I've started to experiment with rocket mass heaters and have had very good luck with running a good clean burn. It will be quite impressive to be able to heat the entire greenhouse without needing electricity to store heat in a thermal mass or run a blower for the burner. More to come!

BTW, if you expand the video and watch in HD, you can get a good view of the burn tunnel...it's sort of cool.

+1

And subscribing.

Cool refraction around the pipe!

+1. I was wondering if anyone was going to notice that!

FINALLY! In a couple of days, the site will be ready for the foundation.

Thats a big toy...

ANd that giant chup a chup above is a bit weird.... Man it's long way to get up to your house around the walkway..

I think I'm going to need an Australian to American translation: chup a chup?

From what I figured out from a google search I think chup a chup is a lollipop. It can also be used to mean suck.

So I think he is talking about the spherical geodesic dome pictured above... It does kind of look like a lollipop.

That make sense. I looked up chup a chup too and couldn't figure out what an excavator had to do with a lollipop. Didn't even think to scroll to the top.

To be honest, I was just looking at it and thinking...
"with some orange paint it would be a great tourist attraction... 'netab's big Orange'! (I think I have oranges on the brain ATM)... but I agree, it does look like a big chuppa chup too!

After many delays, we finally got the foundation hole dug for the greenhouse. Things should start moving along much quicker now!

Around here there is a water tower in the shape of and painted like a peach... unfortunatly at just the right (well maybe wrong) angle it looks like a giant butt.

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