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Heating and Cooking with Wood Ken Kern ‘The now-popular phase, da your o¥n thing, coined more than 2 sents age by Ralph Waldo Kiera, aptly expres tron ‘Yankee values. More and more people tiny, seeking an altemative te cnatempovny living” lve semantically ged Uc ge Lach lu Wve "Fine ties” uf celina and selbyetance. But with alle ‘exh nastlg, 1 de eae opm thing in 19th oxntary Hernia fon would be extemely arduoos acd, assuring 20ch centucy rman and ween eruld and id snered in acting sila Hes, it would still Inve them exthebcally, culturally, nd soetlly un ested. Consoquenely, a sane point in one development dining the Tast buna sears, Kern's philuophy was sapped in favne of st more comfortable and trebnically challenging existence: it wa found that orachines could da our thing for us. 19th century Masachusets, Ecos di his oma thing be chopping leplace wood to kee hishonge warm. Poel gatheriog was sw and dificult, replaces tolalyineMcient, houses inadequately inated an iepropedly exientated. (ttle wonder his neighbors ‘went forward to evlve ew aa ia pacwed metodo heating eit homes. Typical of 20th century machine technology heating eth rode were developed to give automatically controled, equal, and ccenly ditaboted heat flow by way of some vmbizal tel line Dependenee on Eh factary-poduced Furnace and waiator ox duct swath and onthe distant fuel supply woul, of conse, he abhorrent {to Emeraom ack only his acll-rance reduced to a Unecmnnta at ting, but one's very freedom aud independence ia the hands of centralized fuel monopoly and/or govemment conta ‘A mntern techslogit, eager to sauteed woul fund He said in redesigning and properly enginecsing Emenon’s woo During stems to avake it a able house heating solution Rather, the mdern challenge les in thermocouples and microtches, heat ppnmprand enavertor convert ven devising a sophisticated solar tolectortonagesysten or firey geteaton Uo prodoce methane fk fan be moe fun and present & greater challenge to an enginee?’s sopérioe seta ‘Actually there has been werldwide behind thescenes techno legical develaprnent make weed-bining viable methed of house beating mn coker climates. I stress behind-theseenes because wood buming telly in tis coatry has oon veey wich cut of the beating and sic-conditioning mainstream. Much of our knowdedze to the subject has comcoul ofa hasbeen directed twaed emerging hicd-world nation, ‘And the nesredgo that we have gained inthe past few decades would warey Emerson lett: be could Lave created a comfortable living environment, hented entirely by prunings and Chmings fra his wcll by merely coming the sks and materals then at his ispoca with our present tecincal knowledge Emerson's New Concord Howe Acoordingly, have ce-designed Emerson's Concord houte and ‘heating system a0 thal dhe entze unit can be fabricated by anyone well motivated toward mastering his exitence. The revised lus desig minc, but T have hortwed ideas for the building and ‘cauipment devign developed through the yeats by others: Frank Lloyd Wright offered ideas on exth-berming insulation fusing packed carth as insulation agoinat the cold north wall; Wendell ‘Thomas vutetbutod greaty with his “no-daft floor” inventions: fra fi, De, lig asetd with bis plunge ple uo eas, Pete van Dreser recalled the need an siluc of ssatermpering; the En- lsh scientist, De P.O. Rosin contebuted a wealth of informalion ‘an the aeredguamica of open fires: Jack Bays showed low to crake some tay lw-cost, venatle building eras from waste mater ale, Scott Nearing deciomstated haw ajo wth minimal killcan ‘bid welLinasated, native stone walls These are onby afew of the peopl concerned with nes-era housing: chet expertce is described in detail in wy book, The Onmeer-Bult Home.» 'At thi pint yoo may begin to realze thal to ecient Heat ‘Smerson’s new Concord house with wed, cach concen mst he vento vals, floor, roo, insulation, and Sear expose, as well as to the woud buring fetuses themeles. Clance fora monet at the plan: Notice, fat ofa, the circular shape, The wether lal in curved so eto better withstand hydrostatic wall posse exerted az requltof earth-beren insulation: the southern hal is curce-anged fad sloped so as te achieve maximyen slar-<ay incidence from Ssauthcas co seuthwcrt radants. The eocolr fore aeu sures of fimam varm aie circulation, emanating fro the cently leated heat source. The circulation system tel employs esters along he ‘etimeterof the Hours where the Hoe onthe ontside walls ested ir couling a8 tiesto the higher level, falls and flows downward ‘ong Hh outside wall, Cnough the registers and thence wre the Gon and hack to Eh Heating unit Fr cecrcling (a8 dicated i the tawing by Bow acs) ‘Ta NoDrars Feooe Adiionally, this rte provides for Bhe unheard of “no-daft floor.” Sudden rushes of cold si fromm opess doors fll into the ‘entiation inlets (ove Figure 42) by virtue oftheir weight, instead of Blowing aurom the Fower arca of 3 room 2a they do ia Houses of HGUKEE AL Php fr Hey New Cane hae cantengenity “design.” Airspace below the Hoar i achieved by ‘astng the floor an lose, uncorpacted cath fl between concrote hoger piles spaeod every 3 Fo! cath dioctign. The pes are ide ‘with a erubar driven int the ground toa depth of feet, then Bled with concrete. Altera few wrecks tke Rose gurl setbes ad an ir aysce is forued under the slab which Sully rests on the voce piles, (See Figure 4.) The heat circling eanigh the tove or xe inne chamber of te Replace, acts the cing, dewa the walls, sud thence under Uhe fur and back bo the heat source i comveced Tent ‘ea Sosa: Heaneat An cqually valuable heat souree is abtaind fiom dircet rata tion aroun the Beplace bart or wood heater, 412 inc. sken replace hearth puts the heat radiation at fooe level where i ia moat hooded. I aha creates an mtimate seating arangement and lesen ‘he dmiger of Arig spuds singe the lajertor’ of a spatk fom sunken hearth is considerably shurber tha that fum a raised: Varration an Lwmarion Asmat und uptimca wars covered pss iP Noose nly af exter dese eon be ental and adequate sl Yio povided. Windows accordingly ae fa sentation i pro ‘dod separate laateopenings. South acy windows pe fo “rele cumarensrote mah the ite of Phe Concord ae Ths, Ang the winter equ, slr ays sre the ls at «nee sight langle Incidence, roving asin penceatin tothe dk, Ste ‘reredsnsaony oc. As Che Boe besomes heated by Oe So, 3 Ueki the fou cps aod ecetes an ar movement tere. With al wormvar cles lated a the Bele, «dowel piel ‘raw coo and mate air Fo the exter window al walle thea ude the Bor ded up atthe tpl cles ‘ter sone, sng winter ston, ulated panel fashion “shinee FF you wll—hinge over the gs windows Teatation of the cold woth wal proied by camhbcming the snotany wl Elscnhere—on wal ceings aera her at ing ot sephalela-iber oir i plstered ant wie mech. (THs tint consis of qual parts uf ted ly and ground [von a Kminennll or dvcdder ee, such asso, sta, cardboard com cb, nce hal to, To thir ie alded enous ital emulied ‘Pphal| and water to sabe the compound) The ame guund fiber is packed stilton betwsen fhe wall and hetveen the ceobfruming members An Odnch ler uf wl covers che exposed cool sul Note hepa thatthe hey Eas ate provid in Ue Toft. Thi is a senable arongement beste, eect i sworthearton climate nes. Acer amount of eat natal fer tothe oft (egster ae ntalled a contrl Beamon). baie the lat cea ales cornbtay wate Tae Finwetacis ‘The nucleus ofthe Concord house heating yale cates fieplue, The key factor elative to optimum functioning of the fireplace & its ciralating heat chamber Shoot ion is 12 times 2, conductive as stone iat}. A metal heat chamber wll emit qa ‘bes of conductive heat that would otherwite be lst theough ab sarption in the suounding masonry ox lst ta the atmosphere via Uke chimney. Patented metal Greplaee liners (Majestic, Heutittor, Hestfor) becitine available lng after Emerson's tine ll except for Hleatfor, ate poorly built out of Ena, 14 gtuge metal and, cfortmately, the Bner is uncedsonably eponsive. In keeping will the dayourcnen-thing theme, 2 tecommend that peope bul thei ‘awn freplave liner from my plans. (See Figure #4.) we mila} chamber is cut, bet, and vclded out of a single ‘Lin. 0foot piece of thet iron A damper is welded to pai of hinges which in torn aze welded to tho sake shelf, Cool ai inlets are bruv slong the npper fant and rea ofthe Replace ‘Airintake contri the key lo eficiont fireplace combustion “The ignition of a corecty proportioned gust minture will wie complete conburtnw af wncd and eax ges comtining only the nou-<oubuslible carbon dioxide, ater vapar, oxygen, and nitregen. ‘When smake and sot ae ehgered coming out ofa chiiney, 304 ean be eure that combustion i incomplete, What you actually ee ie sll quantities of hydmearhons and eee carbon (cal a ae rot hnaned Hl, mach ofthe heating capacity of the woodtul is lea. The heat ss twafeld: in the hat gates tha rise wp the fe, and in the imburved eowbostible pats that escape wich them. Tes common knowledge that green weed lus less heating of cicney thi well seasoned wood. This is because feeshly felled worst is 50 percent water, and a high moistne conic interfexes with the