College of New Caledonia researchers have turned $20,000 into wood stove-generated electricity.
On Wednesday, the school's applied research and innovation department unveiled the results of a six-month long project using new technology to produce power from the heat of a wood stove.
Funded by a grant from the Omenica Beetle Action Coalition, the thermoelectric generators showed electric current can be produced from any hot surface. That has the potential for a wide range of uses, including power recovery in cars and charging electronic devices in the backcountry...Read more.
