Cob: Baked Houses

[Charmaine R Taylor]

 Here's a wacky idea for " hand to mouth [or hand to clay]  builders"   Use a
Solar Stove Top cooker pattern to make a solar oven that heats ONE brick at a
time to 600 degrees plus...bake  for a while, then place fresh adobe brick in
place, bake again...the parabolic style oven is $12. to make a pattern, and
hey, 10 or 20 of those puppies all baking bricks all day is a cottage
industry!!! the summer, where the sun is....not here in Humboldt country..
nope, no way.. hahaha

Charmaine Taylor

louis wrote:

> I should've qualified that a bit.  It's called Solar One--it has a field of
> mirrors that are focused on a central tower.  It's a highly-capitalized
> research project.  The tower circulates a fluid that's heated like a
> boiler, to turn turbines to produce electricity.  The focal point gets to
> thousands of degrees--it could be used to fuse bricks.  It just happens to
> be about 25 miles from where Khalili is.  It might not be so practical for
> hand-to-mouth alternative builders.
>
> --Louis
>
> Yes, Rosemary Lyndall Wemm. You wrote:
> >Tell me more about the solar collector.  How does it work?
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Rosemary LYNDALL WEMM,