A Rocket Stove Made From a Five Gallon Metal Bucket. The principle behind a rocket stove is simple–rather than cooking on an open fire, you burn wood in an insulated chimney.
Rocket stoves are highly efficient and easy to make. They run on twigs, so you can avoid cutting down a whole tree just to cook dinner. We’ve had a rocket stove made out of brick in our backyard for several years. Going Off-grid. Off grid and homesteading. Build your own solar-powered water pumping station by Jeffrey Yago, P.E., CEM. In the last issue, there was an excellent article by Dorothy Ainsworth on water pumping using mechanical windmills.
In this issue I will address another form of "free" water pumping. There are many remote applications where a solar-powered water pump is more cost effective than installing a conventional grid-connected AC pump. I recently designed a solar-powered pumping system for a local farmer wanting to pump water from a lake up to a watering trough for cattle in a distant fenced field. We have also designed larger systems to pump directly from drilled wells up to elevated storage tanks, which provide gravity-fed water back down to remote ranch buildings. Getting off the Grid. Plug ‘N Save Energy Products uses Cali Bamboo Plywood in PV Solar Shutters. Fireplaces, Heating Stoves, Flues & Chimneys Forums.