Couple of really cool things from Paul Wheaton:

He is making a 4 DVD set on rocket stoves and rocket mass heaters. This is great technology. Cheap, efficient, practical. I think it could help if not fix China’s pollution problem (they currently heat rural homes with open-flame coal fires, which puke off all kinds of nasty)
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