It’s a cooker, a fridge and a generator in one — and it could have a huge impact on the lives of people in the world’s poorest communities.
The Score project is developing a bio-mass burning cooking stove which also converts heat into acoustic energy and then into electricity, all in one unit.
Researchers in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at The University of Nottingham are working on the generator’s Linear Alternator — the part which turns the sound energy into electricity. The system uses special configurations of magnets which generate electrical energy from sound.
The aim of the Score project is to make a low-cost, high efficiency generator that can be used in the world’s poorest countries. The generator has a cost target of £20 per household, based on the production of a million units. The generator will weigh between 10 and 20kg and produce 150 W of electricity. The target is to generate an hour’s use per kilogram of fuel — which could be wood, dung or any other locally-available biomass material. -- Press Release
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