Stovepipe Power: Using Waste Heat

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FIG 1: In a single-storied structure, put the stove at one end of the building and carry the pipe horizontally to the other end and then out. FIG 2: In a structure with two or more stories, run the vent straight up through the rooms above.
FIG 1: In a single-storied structure, put the stove at one end of the building and carry the pipe horizontally to the other end and then out. FIG 2: In a structure with two or more stories, run the vent straight up through the rooms above.
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FIG 3: The Palace Grand in Dawson City, Yukon Territory developed a drum-within-a-drum design to create a large hot air chamber that traps stovepipe heat and radiates it into the room. FIG 4: An unmodified 45 gallon steel drum could possibly serve the same purpose.
FIG 3: The Palace Grand in Dawson City, Yukon Territory developed a drum-within-a-drum design to create a large hot air chamber that traps stovepipe heat and radiates it into the room. FIG 4: An unmodified 45 gallon steel drum could possibly serve the same purpose.
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FIG 5: It involves a little plumbing, but the stovepipe could be routed through a 45 gallon drum fitted with a water inlet at the top and a spigot at the bottom, creating a water heater, radiator, and hot water supply all in one.
FIG 5: It involves a little plumbing, but the stovepipe could be routed through a 45 gallon drum fitted with a water inlet at the top and a spigot at the bottom, creating a water heater, radiator, and hot water supply all in one.
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FIG 6: A stovepipe fitted with an oven. You could buy one, or make one from a 45 gallon drum and Yukon can.
FIG 6: A stovepipe fitted with an oven. You could buy one, or make one from a 45 gallon drum and Yukon can.
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FIG 7: A  proposed concentric double stovepipe in which the inner pipe is an intake drawing exterior air and the outer is an exhaust pipe that warms the inflow. FIG: At the stove end of a concentric pipe design, the intake should be routed through the bottom of the firebox into the ash box chamber.
FIG 7: A  proposed concentric double stovepipe in which the inner pipe is an intake drawing exterior air and the outer is an exhaust pipe that warms the inflow. FIG: At the stove end of a concentric pipe design, the intake should be routed through the bottom of the firebox into the ash box chamber.

With all the discussion that’s going on about natural power
for home use, no one yet seems to have expounded at length
on one source of energy that’s readily available to
homesteaders: namely, the heat that goes up the old
stovepipe. Seems a shame to let those calories get away …

  • Published on Nov 1, 1973
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