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Impulse is now taking pre-orders for battery-backed induction stoves; estimated delivery in 2024Q4 (www.impulselabs.com)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by silence7 to c/technology

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Our battery completely changes that equation. Whether it's hooked up to a 120V or 240V connection, our battery charges gradually while you're not using it. Then, when you're ready to cook, it can quickly release the power it's stored up to achieve astoundingly high performance. We're talking 72,000 BTU/h. Compare that to 18,000 for the best gas stoves.

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[–] evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I don't know how induction will ever be compatible with wok cooking. A huge part of it is keeping food moving by tossing it, and you would loose most of the heating by pulling the wok off the element

[–] silence7 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

There are induction wok ranges for sale, and from what I can tell people are happy with them.

[–] LilNaib 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

As an additional (future) option, I love the idea of creating biochar, capturing the resulting syngas, and purifying the syngas for use as a plug-and-play alternative to propane compatible with their existing cookware.

I think this is sound from ecological and social standpoints. Propane is basically a byproduct of fossil fuel refinement, and as that goes away, so too, will propane, leaving behind a ton of wasted cookware etc. including the embodied carbon in its manufacture. By replacing the propane with another gas that's a byproduct of sequestration rather than fossil emissions, we save the embodied carbon and financially incentivize sequestration, while the people with cultural attachments to gas cooking can continue on.

[–] silence7 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Syngas is wildly more poisonous than methane or propane. Going to have a tough time getting people to pipe that into their homes.

[–] LilNaib 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Hence why I said to purify it, and I only mentioned propane in the context of cooking, which is virtually if not always off-grid, so no piping.

[–] silence7 1 points 10 months ago

Syngas is a mix of carbon monoxide and hydrogen. Purifying it doesn't solve the major risks associated with having a lot of carbon monoxide around

[–] evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Ah, looks like it's dedicated curved ranges with a corresponding wok; that makes sense.

[–] JacobCoffinWrites 1 points 10 months ago

Now I'm picturing it with a switch that detects when the wok leaves the induction element and turns on a heat gun instead