Power source up for discussion

Cool – a thermoelectric generator Somebody makes a wood fired pot for heating water and produces electricity with the same technology. Maybe it's just a proposed product, I forget. Sounds like this is a real product. I wonder if you used a fire, it would melt the plastic parts? You'de have to be careful. It says it weighs 10 ounces and produces 5 V, 2.5 W peak – that would be 500 mA. I assume the actual power would be much less. My Anker USB power bank weighs 8 ounces and has a 10,000 mAh battery, so it has about 5,000 mAh of 5 Volts. If you ran the flamethrower for 10 hours (assuming peak power spec) it would produce that much power. Maybe 20 hours would be more realistic. Using a canister stove, that would never work out. It would take more weight of butane. Maybe an 8 ounce butane + 5 ounce canister + 10 ounce flame thrower = 23 ounces would produce the same amount as my power bank at 8 ounces. If you were doing a trip of a week or less, it would probably weigh less to just use USB power bank. This is similar calculation as a solar panel. Maybe if you were thru hiking it would work out. Probably a solar panel would be better.

The tech has been around for a bit. Google Biolite stove.