Welcome to “The high efficiency wood burning masonry heater and passive solar off grid house” Blog

I sell Masonry Heaters, why on earth would I want to include passive solar or off grid in my blog title? Is it simply that there’s cross marketing potential there?

I’ll admit there is a bit of that involved in the decision. The blog, after all, is not something that I’m taking up simply for the joy of putting words down on “paper.”

There are, however, topics that might better sell heaters, for example: “The masonry stove timber frame house blog” or “The ecological and economic collapse are just around the corner save yourself with a masonry stove blog” would both draw interest from confirmed masonry heater markets.

Well, stoves look very nice in timber frame homes, and timber framed homes are beautiful works of art in their own right, but the truth is that I’m a mason (brick and stone, not secret society), and that some of the expectation here is that I will enjoy sharing on this topic with others of like interest.

God made the sun. God made the earth. A home design that takes into account the energy that God freely gives brings honor to him. One might say that the use of a petrol based fuel takes advantage also of things God has provided, and it’s true, but God’s distribution system makes ours look pathetic by comparison.

Sun is distributed more or less evenly to every place on earth (some get more, some less, but they all get some). Trees grow almost every place, and where trees don’t grow, oftentimes suitable stove fuel will grow; for example grasses and brush.

God made the fuels to burn in an orderly way, and because of this we can build stoves that burn in an optimal way load after load. This gives a great number of benefits, some of which we will be looking at as we see together where this blog will go.

I do hope that you will stop by each week, and see what’s new on the blog. Sometimes it will be technical articles, sometimes conceptual musings, and I hope every now and then to throw in an article on good cooking on a wood fired masonry cook top. It’s all part of the package! Let me know what you like, and what you want to see more of, and I’ll do my best to get it up here.

In the end this blog is about you. You come here to discuss making your life better in some way, and my desire is to serve you in that.

Next weeks post will be a brief overview of what I have heard called in a Japanese book: “The firewood life.” What does it look like to live with a masonry heater and heat your house, your water, and cook your food this way?

Let me know what you want to know; and until then, keep warm, keep healthy, and keep the faith!