by Russell Collins | Nov 10, 2016 | Progress, Related News |
The Free Smokeless Cookstove Revolution! As a result of researching, testing and prototyping for the Himalayan Rocket Stove project over the last 3 years, I’ve stumbled across an effective way to make Clean Air Wood Heater . This was not deliberate as my focus...
by Russell Collins | Oct 31, 2016 | Progress, Related News |
Wow… October was a big month for the project. The production side was a bit slow in some ways, but in terms of overall progress, I’m really please with what we’re achieving here. I’ll itemise some of the highlights: I held a one week workshop...
by Russell Collins | Oct 14, 2016 | Progress, Related News, Uncategorized |
Himalayan Rocket Stove (HRS) Project Update – October 2016 September has been an incredibly productive month for the project, with a lot of progress on multiple fronts. I’ll step through the various aspects in bullet point: Having decided to change the plan for...
by Russell Collins | Sep 29, 2016 | Conceptual, Progress, Related News |
Burning Plastic in the Himalayas – A consideration of the options Initially when I think about burning plastic… I think of stinky black toxic smoke belching out polluting the otherwise pristine air of the Himalayas. It’s is not the image I want to have when...
by Russell Collins | Sep 18, 2016 | Conceptual, Progress |
Since clay is a readily available resource in Ladakh, and perlite is not, I’ve been exploring ways to make cost effective burn tubes using local clay mixed with various other local ingredients to make stable, long lasting insulative burn tubes. Testing at the...
by Russell Collins | Sep 11, 2016 | Progress |
I’ve recently had the opportunity to experiment with an alternative rocket stove concept using local clay and an old metal barrel. Local clay of high quality is also widely available for negligible cost. I found that it is quite easy to make a barrel rocket...
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