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Meet the Teams is a series of 12 blogs introducing the 12 teams competing in the 2018 Wood Stove Design Challenge. Each blog looks at what is new and unique in the stove technology and what drives the team that came up with the design.
10. Finalists
17. DOE partnership
Dec. 12, 2014. This is not a blog but a link to one of the few good articles about automated wood stoves. It remains essential reading for students of clean wood stove design.
​In 2007, Bill McGrath made a homemade pellet boiler that heated his home for 9 years and it produced its own electricity so it continued to work in rural Vermont when the power went down. Bill now helps others use thermoelectrics in a variety of ways including some of the teams in the 2018 Wood Stove Design Challenge.
July 30, 2017: A reposted blog describing an early effort to build a thermoelectric wood stove.
July 11, 2017 - A thermoelectric wood stove could help reduce the size and cost of solar PV systems in northern climates that have limited sunlight in winter.
June 14, 2017 - A personal narrative of making electricity from a wood stove to back up solar panels on a home far from the grid, by Margy Lutz.
June 5, 2017 - How wood stoves could help solar panels and home battery systems be more cost effective in northern areas, by Ken Adler.
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Oct. 25, 2016 - There are now half a dozen wood stoves that are fully automated and their benefits are slowly becoming recognized by air quality regulators and others. The trend is moving faster in Europe. By John Ackerly.
Dec. 9, 2014 - The second Wood Stove Design Challenge in 2014 also focused on automation, by David Brooks of the Nashua Telegraph.
