[Elecraft] Bio-Lite Stove & Charger

[Fred Jensen]

On 7/16/2012 3:27 PM, Jim - yahoo wrote:
> This is little more than a very expensive novelty with a poor output
> and the other serious disadvantages previously mentioned, if you only
> require a 2 watt output it can be achieved for a fraction of the
> price using  a solar charger.

Ahhh yes Mate, but what if you're in the Arctic in December [or 
Antarctic in June]?  That big dark spell when I was in N. Alaska felt 
much longer than it really was, probably because it was so very dark ... 
A L L the time. :-)  Never been so glad to see the sun peek over the 
horizon.  You're right though and "novelty" is a good term.

73,

Fred K6DGW
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