Thumper Club Forum
Club House => Chatter => Topic started by: BrendanO on December 07, 2011, 05:42:55 PM
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First noticed this when the design team at St Andrews Uni were getting a lot of praise: original design is for developing world use - a woodburner that converts some of the heat to electricity to run a fan which...blows air through it!!
More combustion, less poisonous fumes, and...spare heat converted to more electricity to power radio, phone, etc!
About the size of a Henry hoover.
So then they designed a Camping version for us rich (all relative) Westerners. It's not much more than Jetboil size. Charge up your MP3 player/phone from WOOD!
It is a rather wanky, expensive luxury toy, I suspect. But I really really really fancy one, even just as a toy. I don't have a smartphone, so bugger it, why not? <sits back to await deluge...>
It's gonna be a wedding present, from my work (thanks girls) to me an my new wife who LOVES cooking/camping. However, I have to admit that I'm the stove geek of the couple (Hunter, Kelly, Trang, old Primus gas cans, micro Chinese Trang, and, erm, a Jetboil).
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Sounds interesting, but where is the link to the site/pictures etc etc?
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A quick Google reveals...
http://www.biolitestove.com/BioLite.html
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Looks pretty cool to me, but it all rather hinges on how robust the generator/fan unit is.
S
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The generator bit is solid state, it should still be working when the rest is landfill. There is similar stuff in orbit round Jupiter and out past Neptune working twenty years after they thought it would be dead. The fan is the weak point, top spec computer cooling fans will last years maybe tens of years, novelty Chinese toy and Italian vending machine motors faced with the heat of a cooking fire could last hours. I'm waiting until the Korean Army sell them off as surplus or someone on HUBB/ADVrider can tell me the fan part number from RS ;D
Andy