[Stoves] Blow-suggestions without electricity

[steve Taylor]

William Carr wrote:
> On Dec 5, 2006, at 3:32 PM, Crispin Pemberton-Pigott wrote:
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>> It is a surprise to me that once the stove is going, there is no  
>> simple
>> cheap device to make a couple of watts of electricity.
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> Cheap being the criteria?
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> Thermocouples work but produce milliwatts rather than watts.
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Peltier cells are probably the way to go, but they have intrinsic limits 
on maximum temperature, like around 180 C top whack. Thermocouples go up 
to, well the melting point of the constituent parts.

Steve