<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Rok and List: cc Joshua and Richard</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>1. Thanks for returning to the stoves list. Yours was a major topic of conversation many (15?) years ago.</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>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.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>2. Can you expand on the word “cob” below. </div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Some very nice-looking stoves in your photos.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>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?</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I ask because char is so important for climate and other reasons.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>4. At your excellent site below (<a href="https://briquettestoves.com/" class="">https://briquettestoves.com/</a> ) 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!</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>5. There were also nice tributes to Joshua Guinto and his work with and extensions of the Rocket toward char-making and biochar. </div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> Like you, I think Jed is the best artist in the whole stove world. And sculptor and designer.</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I was especially impressed at his 2013 paper (new to me) which couples to your work. </div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I include him to get an update on that very advanced 2013 paper found at: <a href="https://holeyroket.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/the-holey-roket-stove-and-biochar-project.pdf" class="">https://holeyroket.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/the-holey-roket-stove-and-biochar-project.pdf</a></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>In order to keep this message only to Rokets, I am starting another separate message to Joshua.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Ron </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 27, 2022, at 6:17 AM, Rok Oblak <<a href="mailto:rok.stoves@gmail.com" class="">rok.stoves@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Dear stovers,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It showed up as a great update to the holey Roket stove <a href="https://briquettestoves.com/" class="">https://briquettestoves.com/</a> 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. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Happy and healthy cooking!</div><div class="">Rok<br clear="all" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div>-- <br class=""><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div class=""><b class="">Rok Oblak, MAA Design</b><br class=""><br class=""><a href="mailto:rok.stoves@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">rok.stoves@gmail.com</a><br class=""><a href="http://www.holeyroket.com/" target="_blank" class="">briquettestoves.com</a><br class=""><br class="">Gregorciceva ulica 5<br class="">4224 Gorenja vas<br class="">Slovenia<br class=""></div></div></div></div>
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