[MartHale7]

Yes, I run a rocket stove group on MeWe, and I have been looking at all kinds of rocket stoves, gasifier stoves, and TLUD stoves.

My attention got caught on thermal mass when I visited a man who built a cob oven. From one firing he runs the oven 2 – 3 days and cooks over 6 turkeys at a time in it. It is a huge oven, but he did not use much wood to heat the oven…… Since that time I have been collecting data and trying different methods of using thermal mass. My idea is to have the thermal mass right outside my window, and then with thermostat pipe that heat into my home as needed.

I have also worked with heat retention, thermal cookers, hay box cookers and I want to learn how to use the thermal mass of sand to hold heat and use it to my advantage. Thus using old junk steel cans give me a starting point to see how to get started…