http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1203647021/the-powerpot
For your interest. Generates power from the heat of any stove whilst you cook.
For your interest. Generates power from the heat of any stove whilst you cook.
The powerpot
- Thread starter mountainm
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Oh yeah! That's going straight on my wish list! Maybe now i can get my wife to join me for wintercamping with a tentstove!
Thanks for the link!
Thanks for the link!
Not sure how reliable this thing will be in the long run.
For peltiers or thermoelectric generators to work properly, one side needs to be hot and the other cold! With a specific temperature difference between them to work at an optimum. Therefore a heat sink is needed, ala biolite etc.
Its not difficult to make your own built into a stove, the TEG's are quite expensive for decent ones though.
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For peltiers or thermoelectric generators to work properly, one side needs to be hot and the other cold! With a specific temperature difference between them to work at an optimum. Therefore a heat sink is needed, ala biolite etc.
Its not difficult to make your own built into a stove, the TEG's are quite expensive for decent ones though.
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Isn't cold an relative thing? As long as the temperature difference is enough it would create power. I'm not sure how longlived the peltier-elements wil be though, especially if they run quite hot most of the time. With the water boiling it would run atleast an 100C. Hmmm, i'll have to ponder on this....
The problem with this pot is that it looks like a metal pot. So where exactly will the cold part be? With my gasifier stove, the TEG would be in the base, below a little insulation. The heat sink would be below the heat plate, being cooled by a fan (powered by the TEG)
This pot may work differently, I'd still prefer power from the stove though.
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Make sure you understand what's needed before you buy one of these things. The electrical power is only produced whilie the heat source is burning. If you typically need to charge your 'phone for two hours, then your heat source will need to be burning for two hours, and probably at quite a high power output to boot.
If the fuel is foraged, no problem except for the foraging.
The fuel to give two hours full-power runtime on one of my stoves will heat all my meals for at least a week, and it will weigh half a kiilo.
If the fuel is foraged, no problem except for the foraging.
The fuel to give two hours full-power runtime on one of my stoves will heat all my meals for at least a week, and it will weigh half a kiilo.
The cold part is the inside of the pot. That's why it tells you in the details that you MUST have water in the pot. That's the coolant.
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