[Stoves] High mass space heating options Re: Rocket Stove for the PLACE

[Crispin Pemberton-Pigott]

Dear Steve'n'All

 

I remind everyone about a long discussion we had on this group about small
batteries used to make LED light sources. Look in the database for 'lemon
light'.

 

An old phone battery that will not run the phone will run an LED for many
hours, say 2 hrs a night for a month.

 

There is a pot you can buy with a USB port on the end of the handle.

There are TEG's galore these days which can be used by the stoves.

There is a need for lighting and small amounts of power everywhere - watch
National Geographic for a contest in this regard.

 

It happens that in Mongolia and the countries around it, space heating is by
far the major energy demand. That means there is a chimney involved. That
could be replaced by a fan in certain cases if there is a good reason to
introduce the extra complexity. I am optimistic about both approaches. The
big problem has not been inadequate draft, it has been poor combustors and
poor excess air control. 

 

I love the idea that batteries from motorcycles be used because a) they can
be charged daily by the bike, and b) it means there is a local source of
supply (in other words a 'developed market') and c) it is just what is
needed to get the stove going without having to have an internal charger and
storage medium like the Philips stove did.

 

All the components are on the market. It only remains for the stove
designers to start cranking out the products.

 

Regards
Crispin

 

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On 19 October 2011 08:31, Paul Olivier <paul.olivier at esrla.com> wrote:

Crispin,

I have seen a rechargeable 12-volt battery that it quite small.
This could be used in conjunction with the thermo-electric generation of
electricity.
But in countries where motorbikes are commonplace, then it is simpler to tap
into their batteries.


There are motorbike batteries - and presumably also mobile phone batteries
freely available in most places in the world now aren't there ? 

Steve 

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