Coolest Stove Ever?

[Gary and Cheri]

http://biolitestove.com/faq/instructions/

The video is of the Biostove camping version. They make a home version that they are sending to underdeveloped countries and if you read other parts of their web site you will see that they are not currently selling the home version to the general public, but plan to in the future.

Both stoves produce heat and will also power small electrical appliances. Both stoves are fan stoves but the home version is also a rocket stove. These would make a nice small confined campfire for those of us in burn ban country.

Gary

[Woodbutcher]

That is a cool stove Gary....it would be great for back packers with a texting addicton.

[GRY GHST]

that thing is really cool

[droid_ca]

I like the idea behind this stove just wondering if it can be hacked apart as I'd like to run a chimney pipe through it for a tiny house and have it go to my main battery supply to charge those instead of just a small appliance...Think this is possible?

[Gary and Cheri]

If you read some of the statistics on the stove the smoke and other pollutants are way down. The one story about having it out on a lake and then bringing it into the cabin made me wonder about how pollutant free it really is. It is made for third world homes but I assume that most of those are fairly open. I am sure it still consumes a great deal of oxygen so I would think you need some fairly wide open windows. It also does not seem that it is designed to heat an area. I would sure like to get one of each size and try it out.

I would think for your small house you would need the larger stove that is not available to us yet. As to your hack I don't see why your idea would not work. You would just be putting a chimney where a pot would go. I would think that your biggest problem is the accumulation of ash and how you get rid of it. Fairly small fire box. I assume you are thinking of maintaining a fairly long burning fire.

Gary

[droid_ca]

For keeping it as easy as possible I'd want to run the chimney pipe right through it so then there would be no worry of plugging up the unit it's self and you just do regular chimney cleaning as you normally would

[Gary and Cheri]

If my understanding of the design is correct you have a pipe that conducts heat which is turned into electricity and runs a fan that forces air into the combustion chamber which makes for a hotter less polluting fire. Not having seen the fire chamber I imagine there are opennings that can not be interferred with. An exhaust pipe just sitting on the top may actually be the best way to go. Just my thoughts.

Gary

[bdosborn]

If my understanding of the design is correct you have a pipe that conducts heat which is turned into electricity and runs a fan that forces air into the combustion chamber which makes for a hotter less polluting fire.

It's a peltier junction that generates the electricity, the same gadget that's in thermoelectric coolers.Wiki Link' Run electricity through the junction and it gets cools. Warm the junction and electricity comes out. A guy I work with used the idea for his senior project thesis; hang peltier junctions on a wood burning stove and power your house. What he found was that a peltier junction big enough to get meaningful power out of is *very* expensive. They also get less efficient with high heat and will burn up if they get too hot. About 400F was the upper limit. In the end it was a fun project but not one with real life applications (yet) due to the limitations of the peltier junction.

Bruce

[droid_ca]

Thank Bruce the idea I was thinking more towards was to use an electric gizmo called a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joule_thief Joule Thief and by substituting the white light-emitting diode with a computer fan of sorts....Sorry for going of track here from the original post

[droid_ca]

http://www.stealthpowersystems.com/
https://www.thepowerpot.com/
try and do your cooking with one of these for even more juice..I wonder if you could recharge your trailers batteries some what

[wincrasher]

How is that better than this?

http://www.amazon.com/Coleman-200000412 ... eman+stove

[bdosborn]

How is that better than this?

http://www.amazon.com/Coleman-200000412 ... eman+stove

Where's the USB port for charging your phone?

Bruce

[Wolffarmer]

If my understanding of the design is correct you have a pipe that conducts heat which is turned into electricity and runs a fan that forces air into the combustion chamber which makes for a hotter less polluting fire.

It's a peltier junction that generates the electricity, the same gadget that's in thermoelectric coolers.Wiki Link' Run electricity through the junction and it gets cools. Warm the junction and electricity comes out. A guy I work with used the idea for his senior project thesis; hang peltier junctions on a wood burning stove and power your house. What he found was that a peltier junction big enough to get meaningful power out of is *very* expensive. They also get less efficient with high heat and will burn up if they get too hot. About 400F was the upper limit. In the end it was a fun project but not one with real life applications (yet) due to the limitations of the peltier junction.

Bruce

Long time ago I read that the Soviets had a device that went on wood stoves to run radios. Was mostly used in Siberia. From the little description I read it sounded like a peltier device. I read this back in the mid 1980s when I was taking a Soviet era magazine.



Randy

[wincrasher]

You should charge your phone with a solar panel, not something you cook your beans with.