Joshua Herzig-Marx

Today, Treehugger highlighted the Philips Smokeless Stove, a forced air, high efficiency wood fueled cooking stove. In their press release, Phillips cites the stove’s ability to reduce both fuel use (and subsequent deforestation and time spent gathering firewood) and pollution. No price was given. A similar product, the Sierra Zip stove, has been available for years and is sold for about $60 through Campmor. Only requiring an AA battery for hours of use, an inexpensive solar charger could make this a readily available alternative to Phillips’ design.