[Stoves] Biolite gets a mention on Engadget

Crispin Pemberton-Pigott crispinpigott at gmail.com
Mon Feb 20 14:23:04 CST 2012


Dear Friends

 

Paul Montgomery can be assumed to be a student of Steve Garrett and Matt Poese of the GACC Roadmap fame. He is the leading authority on thermoacoustic refrigeration (which is what that device in his had is).

 

Ultimately it is a form of Stirling Engine. There is some work on generating power from stoves going on in the UK (incl Univ of London and others) but they have not made much progress on a practical device. 

 

Steve and his former student (now head at the Los Alamos T/A Lab) Dr Backhaus showed that for power under 20 watts this approach is probably the best and cheapest. TEG’s are fragile (as Biolite has found several times) so there is real progress for us from Montgomery. You can see that he is working in a possible Delta T of 800 degrees. Now that is really useful!

 

Regards

Crispin

 

 

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and another but of a different process using sound waves https://www.engineeringforchange.org/news/2011/03/15/how_a_loudspeaker_in_a_cookstove_can_power_appliances_and_cut_pollution.html

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