[Stoves] Briquette stove in cob

[Ronal Larson]

Rok and List:  cc Joshua and Richard

	1.  Thanks for returning to the stoves list.  Yours was a major topic of conversation many (15?) years ago.
		I apologize to Richard Stanley and several others for not including their later contributions.  Richard and I met at a (forgotten theme) confere4nce in Boulder maybe 20 years ago.  Good to hear he also is still active.	

	2.  Can you expand on the word “cob” below.   
		Some very nice-looking stoves in your photos.

	3.   Many on this list are investigating. char-making stoves these days.  I remember reading a little about the Roket and char-making.  Anything new on the char-making front at your company?  Or in your part of Europe?
		I ask because char is so important for climate and other reasons.

	4.  At your excellent site below (https://briquettestoves.com/ <https://briquettestoves.com/> ) there was a nice (but to me unknown) story about your receiving  funding from Finland to develop the Roket.  Anything more on that we should hear?   Good for the Finns!
	
	5.  There were also nice tributes to Joshua Guinto and his work with and extensions of the Rocket toward char-making and biochar. 
	 Like you, I think Jed is the best artist in the whole stove world.  And sculptor and designer.
	I was especially impressed at his 2013 paper (new to me) which couples to your work.  
	I include him to get an update on that very advanced 2013 paper found at:  https://holeyroket.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/the-holey-roket-stove-and-biochar-project.pdf
	In order to keep this message only to Rokets,  I am starting another separate message to Joshua.

Ron                    


> On Jun 27, 2022, at 6:17 AM, Rok Oblak <rok.stoves at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Dear stovers,
> 
> it's been a long time since I've written in the list, but we recently organized a Building with Earth workshop and one detail in the cob table was an integrated cooking stove - a ceramic liner, using biomass briquettes, same type as from Richard Stanley. 
> 
> It showed up as a great update to the holey Roket stove https://briquettestoves.com/ <https://briquettestoves.com/> as durability is a big issue as ceramic liners tend to crack and break pretty easily due to temperature shocks, but the cob here is making it last for a long time. 
> 
> I have mixed local found clay and a lot of fine sawdust in the liner and it doesn't make any smoke, only when you push in a new briquette, there is black fumes for a few seconds, until a new one ignites.
> 
> If you happen to know any projects this principle would be good to integrate, even for other types of wood, I would be happy to share my experiences and possibly collaborate on redesigning existing stoves with this alternative solution. 
> 
> Happy and healthy cooking!
> Rok
> 
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