RE: [papercreters] Thermal Mass Rocket Stove Heater with Papercrete

I haven't been following this subject (in MA with my daughter with very limited internet access) but will say that I have used papercrete and cob together in my fireplace. I put the cob near where the fire will be and the papercrete on the outside to insulate. I know others have done this in the past. The idea is to store the heat and not catch the thing on fire.



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To: papercreters@yahoogroups.com
From: perryway@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:07:33 -0800
Subject: Re: [papercreters] Thermal Mass Rocket Stove Heater with Papercrete

 

I know Paul Wheaton (from permies.com and richsoil.com) this is a great idea when using cob, but bad idea for papercrete. It won't get thermal mass. You will burn the wood or whatever you put in there more efficiently but you won't get the heat you want. Also I would venture to guess that the paper fibers themselves might gassify with all that heat, and not sure what that would do internally to the cement (i.e. de-bond the cement?)

On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 1:07 PM, countryatheartok <criswells.ok@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

 

I've been looking at the following site http://www.richsoil.com/rocket-stove-mass-heater.jsp and others, and was wondering if instead of cob for thermal mass, if papercrete could be used instead. Has anybody else thought of this or tried it?
Bob

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