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Impulse is now taking pre-orders for battery-backed induction stoves; estimated delivery in 2024Q4
(www.impulselabs.com)
Technology for a Solar-Punk future.
Airships and hydroponic farms...
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
There are induction wok ranges for sale, and from what I can tell people are happy with them.
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.
Syngas is wildly more poisonous than methane or propane. Going to have a tough time getting people to pipe that into their homes.
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.
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
Ah, looks like it's dedicated curved ranges with a corresponding wok; that makes sense.
Now I'm picturing it with a switch that detects when the wok leaves the induction element and turns on a heat gun instead