Glenn Herbert wrote:The "My Little Homestead" family built a rocket mass heater in one of their earthbag structures.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEQH2vIsMoU
They have built several, but the rest are not so directly integrated with the earthbag wall.
William Bronson wrote: Concrete blocks walls are fairly efficient compared to poured concrete, pretty much a wash of the cavities are filled with mortar.
Bricks, I'm not sure.
I compare slip form masonry to a poured concrete wall.
Every stone that you use displaces some of the concrete.
The stone finish excuses imperfections.
Maybe cob could be substituted for the concrete.
William Bronson wrote:Sounds like slip form masonry.
It's more resource intensive than dry stacked walls or even conventional mortared stone walls but also requires much less skill.
Sometimes a foam core is cast into the middle of such a wall, creating a system that has a weather resistant exterior , high mass interior and a continuous insulative air barrier.