{"id":13003,"date":"2011-07-05T14:37:12","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T20:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.sustainablog.org\/?p=13003"},"modified":"2011-07-05T14:37:12","modified_gmt":"2011-07-05T20:37:12","slug":"clean-cook-stove-biolite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/clean-cook-stove-biolite\/","title":{"rendered":"The Clean Cook Stove that Generates Electricity: BioLite"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A woman cooks with the Biolite HomeStove during field trials in India<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Last week at SUNfiltered, I got the chance to discuss a really innovative project addressing wood-fire cooking among the world’s most impoverished people<\/a>, and its associated health and environmental impacts. And back in March, I came across Barefoot Power’s Firefly micro solar system<\/a>, which provides small amounts of electricity for people without it in the developing world. I thought both of these stories were great, so you can imagine my joy in coming across a social enterprise that’s addressing both of these issues in one product: the Biolite HomeStove<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Using cogeneration technology<\/a>, the HomeStove creators claim it provides the means to cook with less fuel (and less smoke), and also to charge cell phones and LED lights (two items that can dramatically improve the living situation of the world’s poor). Waste heat is pulled from the wood fire in the stove, and converted to electricity to run a fan that provides the fire with more oxygen (and much less smoke). Excess electricity can run the light, or charge the phone. \u00a0Biolite’s done it’s own field trials… and Fast Company<\/a> also gave it a go last Fall… take a look at how it worked for them:<\/p>\n