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

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by silence7@slrpnk.net to c/technology@slrpnk.net

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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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[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (22 children)

Yeah, it's an instant-boil capability.

If they made a wok version of the stove, it would allow something equivalent to commercial-kitchen stir-fries.

The big deals for most people are:

the battery means you can run the stove off a 120v connection and avoid the expense of rewiring a kitchen built for gas
You get the ability to cook ~~for a week or so~~ during power outages

[–] evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (7 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@slrpnk.net 3 points 9 months ago (5 children)

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

[–] LilNaib@slrpnk.net 2 points 9 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@slrpnk.net 1 points 9 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@slrpnk.net 1 points 9 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@slrpnk.net 1 points 9 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

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