BioLite The environment friendly camping stove generates electricity too

Camping equipment is turning greener with every new innovation, making sure you don’t burn a hole in the atmosphere while enjoying nature. Here’s another addition, the BioLite stove. What you probably don’t know is, toxic smoke from cooking indoors using solid fuel kills around 1.6 million people annually and causes a significant amount of harm to the environment too. The BioLite stove reduces emissions by 95% and uses half the fuel required by a regular fire. It also boils water faster than a normal petroleum stove. This portable, efficient and eco-friendly stove can burn a load of substances you’d come across while camping and weighs just a pound and a half.

On connecting it to a thermoelectric generator, the stove powers a small fan that blows air to improve combustion. It also creates enough energy to power up a USB device through its USB port. You can buy yourself one of these for just around $80.

[Ohgizmo]