The BioLite Camp Stove

How could a simple stove help the people in off-grid villages or in the wilderness? And that too without needing any exotic fuel? On top of that suppose the device was truly 'green'?

The BioLite home/camp stoves claim to do all that. BioLite is a low-cost biomass cook stove that burns things like sticks, pine cones, brush or virtually anything that burns. The waste heat is converted to electricity to charge mobile phones, LED lights and other life-changing gadgets. It is an efficient stove that cuts smoke by 95% (soot is almost fully eliminated), carbon monoxide by 91% and needs only 50% less wood than conventional stoves. BioLite lets you use renewable resources for fuel instead of petroleum, thus reducing your carbon footprint.

The 'fuel' burns in the stove’s combustion chamber. Waste heat radiates into a thermo-electric generator, which converts the heat into usable current. Some of that current powers a small fan, which boosts airflow within the burn chambers for more efficient combustion. The BioLite burns as hot as a propane stove and can boil water in five minutes. The remaining current (about 2Watts at 5 Volts) is fed to a USB port for charging an external device. The BioLite Camp stove is only the size of a large coffee can and weighs less than a kilogram.


To learn more, visit:
http://biolitestove.com/homestove/overview/
http://biolitestove.com/campstove/camp-overview/features/