[Stoves] New thermoelectric product

[rongretlarson at comcast.net]

Crispin and list: 

I happened to go to this "Redline" exhibition yesterday, you have identified below. It is one of the best I have seen for appropriate technology (actually the only AT exhibit I have seen - outside of various 3-4 day UN climate and solar meetings).. The exhibit, put together by the Smithsonian, included several each of low cost buildings, bicycles, water pumping systems, water purifiers, charcoal-using jikos (nothing like we talk about on this list, unfortunately) as well as some electronics (including low cost computers, solar rechargers, cell phones, and the Tellurex). 

We have all heard about or seen themoelectric units as part of stoves - but being part of a tea pot is new to me. Everything about it looked first rate. There was no price information at their display station - just the same video as at the site you give below. 

I visited the Tellurex site and they have a long list of products with prices - but didn't show this tea pot. Anyone have a price? 

More about the total exhibit can be learned at the local parent site which has notice also of an August (charcoal, but expanded??) stove competition. For that, see 

http://design90denver.org/events-post/efficient-stove-design-cook-off/ 

The photo at the home site of the above URL shows one of the largest solar cookers I have ever seen - looked like it might be 2 meters across. 

This is a travelling exhibit - and would be a good one in many other cities. 

Thanks to Crispin for the alert - and the Smithsonian for putting it together, and several local groups for hosting in Denver. 

Ron 

----- Original Message -----
From: "Crispin Pemberton-Pigott" <crispinpigott at gmail.com> 
To: "Stoves" <stoves at lists.bioenergylists.org> 
Sent: Friday, July 15, 2011 1:09:33 PM 
Subject: [Stoves] New thermoelectric product 




From: Philip K. Hopke 
Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2011 10:21 PM 





http://www.dexigner.com/news/23373 
The Tellurex World Pot 


July 9, 2011 | Levent OZLER 

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Tellurex Corporation unveiled a practical solution that combines native cooking fires and thermoelectric science to recharge cell phones and other portable electrical devices in remote villages and huts around the world. The Tellurex World Pot is one of more than thirty innovative products that are featured in the Design for the Other 90 Percent, a Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum exhibition on display at RedLine in Denver, Colorado today through September 25. 

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Tellurex World Pot Description: twitterDescription: facebook



The company conducted a live demonstration at the exhibit using a fully discharged cell phone and a common teakettle with an implanted high performance Tellurex thermoelectric module and a USB port. After less than two minutes atop a modest fire, the common teakettle had become an electric generator, enabling a Tellurex engineer to boot up the dead phone and place a call to a spectator, who was chosen at random. Meanwhile, the teakettle-generator also began to boil and sterilize water. 

The Tellurex World Pot can deliver important benefits to native people in the underdeveloped world who may benefit from far-reaching cellular coverage but are too often ambushed and robbed while trekking to distant charging stations for their phones. It may also be a life saver in any location hit by a natural disaster and power loss, where rescue may depend on keeping cell phone GPS and texting power working over several days, along with any mapping and compass apps. 


Read more: http://www.dexigner.com/news/23373#ixzz1SCcszjmu 
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