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Inventor makes energy efficient stove (latimes.com)
4 points by chaostheory on Dec 1, 2007 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


Hm. There are a lot of stoves to this general pattern. The electricity is only a few watts and drives efficient combustion.

Here's one from an American firm: http://www.woodgascampstove.com/

Philips has one too: http://www.research.philips.com/newscenter/archive/2006/0602...

The Hexayurt (http://hexayurt.com) infrastructure package specifies a stove in this general class:

http://files.howtolivewiki.com/TIDES%20-%20Hexayurt%20Infras...

It'll be interesting to see if, when all is said and done, he's come up with something new, though. None of these stoves reach the 95% level of efficiency he was discussing in the article.


"when the electricity goes out, she can't use the Turbococina because it needs the fans to move air into the combustion chambers."

That sounds like a major deficiency to me. If the people have electricity, why not just use an electric stove to begin with?




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