Wood stoves are pretty old-fashioned in the era of solar power (and maybe the hydrogen economy!) But that doesn’t mean they can’t be improved, which is the idea of an annual contest sponsored by an industry group and held on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
Industry judges will be examining the entries, but there’s a “people’s vote” too. You an read about the 10 entries on the Alliance for Green Heat website and decide whether you’re more in favor of a traditional stove with better sensors to tweak efficiency, or a gassification system, or “the first stove in America specifically designed to burn pressed logs made from sawdust” or a system that produces electricity as well as heat (shown below).
Students from George Washington University School of Engineering and Applied Science’s Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering (GWU SEAS MAE) and their thermoelectric stove.
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I am very biased. I have tried to get into the stove competition. I got my patent in USA and in Canada. The stoves in the competition are missing some basic science and design improvements. I think my technology might be 10 years to soon.
This is awesome..thank you..
Pellet stoves need electricity to run. Having a self contained unit to run itself and charge a battery for starting the cycle would be a win win for homes off the grid or ones that lose power a lot.