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Thermal Cascading — One Fire, Multiple Jobs (Design Principle)

Waste heat from one fire can do several jobs in sequence before it's lost — a real, established homestead engineering principle.

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The core principle is real, established homestead engineering (rocket mass heaters, water-jacket coils, permaculture's 'stacking functions'). Treat the specific bread-oven+coil+forge diagram as illustrative of the concept, not a proven literal build — a working forge in practice wants its own concentrated heat source, not shared flue exhaust.

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