Wood Stove Design Challenge

This isn’t exactly what we do (we use wood for cooking, they use wood for heating), but it is very interesting none the less.

From their website:

The Next Generation Wood Stove Design Challenge is now underway! The Challenge seeks to promote next generation stove designs, build a community of innovators and showcase stove innovation to the public. 

The Design Challenge will culminate in a Wood Stove Decathlon, modeled after the Solar Decathlon, which will take place on the National Mall in November 2013. The Challenge grew from discussions between the Alliance for Green Heat and editors at Popular Mechanics magazine who believe innovation can overcome some of the problems inherent in the wood stove and that a “smart” wood stove may be on the horizon.

The finalists were announced today in a Press Release.

Among the 14 designs are stoves controlled by microprocessors and connected to smartphones, as well as ultra-efficient stoves based on 17th-century Scandinavian designs and several state-of-the-art hybrid stoves that are already on the market. Six are from Europe.