[Greenbuilding] heating DHW directly with wood

[Reuben Deumling]

wonderful. thanks for those suggestions. I did find a few youtube examples.
Some are ... interesting.


On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Erin Rasmussen <erin at trmiles.com> wrote:

> Hi Reuben,
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> There's more experience with this on the Cooking Stoves list, and the
> projects are fun.
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> This is a recent Welch Design:
> http://stoves.bioenergylists.org/content/welsh-biochar-making
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> There are also some fun South African heaters - they are built more like a
> Kelly Kettle
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> Shiza Manzi is typical.
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> http://www.shizamanzi.co.za/
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> In South Africa the water heater is called a Geyser, and it's typically
> installed right outside the bathroom.
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> You can also try searching for the german word for water heater, and see
> what you come up with on google and on YouTube, there are a bunch of
> tinkerers out there that post their ideas and test batches online.
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> Kind regards,
>
> Erin Rasmussen
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> erin at trmiles.com
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> *From:* Greenbuilding [mailto:
> greenbuilding-bounces at lists.bioenergylists.org] *On Behalf Of *Reuben
> Deumling
> *Sent:* Sunday, December 29, 2013 6:46 PM
> *To:* Greenbuilding
> *Subject:* [Greenbuilding] heating DHW directly with wood
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> Growing up in Germany some houses featured simple wood-fired water heaters
> indoors. Micro-sized fireboxes mounted beneath a (by US-standards very
> modestly sized) storage tank with a chimney out the top. These were
> typically located in the bathroom, sometimes even right above the bathtub.
> I've long been tempted to build something like this. I have plenty of spare
> water heaters and stove pipe.
>
> Thoughts? Ideas? Experience with this sort of thing? What to use for a
> firebox? I'd love to re-appropriate something along the lines of the cast
> iron portions of older water heaters, but the space requirements probably
> dictate something slightly larger.
>
> Does anyone have experience with this AquaFire model?
>
> http://www.transoceanltd.com/appliances/aquafire.html
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> Thanks very much.
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