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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,599 ✭✭✭Fiskar


    aaakev wrote: »

    Weights too much and far too bulky. Plus you will have to bring your own fuel (nice and dry). Easier ways to get electricity (bring a spare battery).
    Can see some benifits but portability isn't one.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,956 ✭✭✭Doc Ruby


    Oh yeah I saw those before, handy for a base camp. If they ever make a similar attachment for the Kelly Kettle I'm buying two on the spot. It seems to work on the same principles.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,485 ✭✭✭✭Khannie


    The premise is fairly simple for these. I was half thinking of adding a thermocouple (i.e. what that yoke uses) to a stove. You could use passive water cooling in a home environment and it should keep the outside of the thermocouple cool enough to generate a reasonable amount of juice.

    Then my stove notion was rejected. my wife loves the open fire too much.

    It looks like a decent device though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,554 ✭✭✭Pat Mustard


    OP, have you considered a powermonkey extreme?

    It costs about the same, weighs about the same, but is less bulky.

    It operates even in low sunlight. You can also use it indoors (or on a train), and you don't have to ensure that it has fuel to burn. It is waterproof, so you can attach it to the outside of a rucksack or tent, and allow it to work away.

    Review here.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,956 ✭✭✭Doc Ruby


    What might be cool would be some sort of all in one generator device, compact yet powerful. Solar, thermal, hand crank, even water powered all in the same package, and ruggedised.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 350 ✭✭CRM Ireland


    They reviewed the biolite stove on the Gadget Show on channel 5 last week. They had a few electric producing stoves there for review.

    Is there a larger scale version of this tech, something that could convert the heat from a multi-fuel stove and generate a more useful amount of power?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,440 ✭✭✭The Aussie


    Is there a larger scale version of this tech, something that could convert the heat from a multi-fuel stove and generate a more useful amount of power?

    Good question, would be handy having it, if it could be retro fitted.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,485 ✭✭✭✭Khannie


    You could add your own thermocouple in theory. They work on a temperature differential and in a home environment it would become difficult to maintain a large differential.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 273 ✭✭Danpad


    Ordered one of these from Santa! I see they also do a 'home' stove as well but aren't rolling it out to the public just yet as they're focusing on distributing it to third world countries. I have the kids carrying plastic bags everywhere they go with the remit of collecting twigs and cones etc. They think it's great as their reward is they get to come camping with me when the weather picks up in the new year with my promise that we'll definitely see bigfoot...as he lives on the very campsite we're going to. ;)


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