Power Pot Will Charge Your Gadgets Just by Using Heat

[Guest]

Two inventors from Salt Lake City are currently pitching a project on Kickstarter that would allow gadget owners to recharge their devices when there are no conventional power sources are available.

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[leo2kp]

Survival kits just got smaller. Power Pot, phone, and some bandaids.

 

[amigafan]

Oh from the title I thought it was some other kind of Power Pot xD

 

[soccerplayer88]

Misleading 420 letdown!

Also, fire and electronics? Sounds somewhat dangerous.

 

[amigafan]

Power Pot provides GREEN way to produce electricity

 

[willard]

[citation][nom]leo2kp[/nom]Survival kits just got smaller. Power Pot, phone, and some bandaids.[/citation]
Solar chargers are a lot smaller, cheaper, don't require you build a fire and can be used on the go. Looks like this just has the advantage in power output and working in overcast conditions.

I'm guessing anybody who's already got a solar charger as part of a survival kit is just going to stick with that.

 

[leo2kp]

[citation][nom]willard[/nom]Solar chargers are a lot smaller, cheaper, don't require you build a fire and can be used on the go. Looks like this just has the advantage in power output and working in overcast conditions.I'm guessing anybody who's already got a solar charger as part of a survival kit is just going to stick with that.[/citation]

I was just going to mention the situation where lack of sunlight might be an issue, but then I saw you said something about it. I think this would be more versitile, except in rainy conditions where neither would work

 

[elcentral]

how much charge can you take out of a hand driven small charger ?
i think a dynamo makes about 15W or some thing

 

[mr_tuel]

Heck I could put this thing outside in August and get truly free power!

 

[warezme]

I guess if you are already in the wild and are going to be making a fire it makes sense but otherwise, using heat or thermal radiation to create electricity using heat differential with some modified TEC that isn't very efficient at all. I wouldn't invest.

 

[eastcoaster]

[citation][nom]soccerplayer88[/nom]Misleading 420 letdown!Also, fire and electronics? Sounds somewhat dangerous.[/citation]

HA! what a 420 letdown.

 

[thebigt42]

[citation][nom]elcentral[/nom]how much charge can you take out of a hand driven small charger ?i think a dynamo makes about 15W or some thing[/citation]

http/www.tegpower.com/pro2.htm

 

[beardguy]

This is sweet! Most smart phones are terrible for backpacking trips because of their lackluster battery life. With something like this, you could charge your phone every night by the fire.

 

[ProDigit10]

They could create one for the car; then we could get rid of the radiator!
Get energy out of the engine/coolant,and power the lights and other electric internals in the process.

 

[Supertrek32]

Your survival kits has a phone...? Why would you need a survival kits if your phone was working...? And a spare battery will be cheaper and smaller that the solar charger or the pot. Just saying. Those are great for psuedo-camping, if you want to play phone games instead of enjoying the outdoors, but aren't really survival kit items.

 

[Guest]

I think there would be too many accidents of people burning up their electronics in the fire. Plastic and displays would melt from the heat. How do they even ensure the charging cord doesnt get melted?

 

[jj463rd]

Just add your favorite heat producing radioactive isotope to this and you will have a homemade atomic battery.
http/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_battery

Use a bunch of them and you might even power your electric bike with nuclear power.
Warning you will want to add a Radioactive trefoil symbol to your bike as well.
http/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazard_symbol#Radioactive_trefoil_symbol
I'd add a Geiger Muller counter to it to hear the cool buzzing from radiation counts.

 

[danwat1234]

The hot side of the Peltier will be really hot with the boiling water or fire by it, but how cool will the cold side of the peltier be? It would have to be much cooler than the hot side and that means a really big heatsink.