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Austroflamm wood-burning stoves stay hot long after the fire is out
Ever hear of a wood-burning stove with a memory? That’s what Pi-Ko by Austroflamm has, but it’s not going to remember how hot it got yesterday — no, nothing like that — it retains heat and keeps radiating warmth for nine hours after the fire is out.
Check out this other model by Austroflamm, looking a bit like the front of a flying sub and stylish enough to be called Vogue. Too bad these stoves cost $5000, but maybe by next winter when heating oil (which hit a record high price of $104.52/barrel today) and natural gas prices are a lot higher, that steep price for a highly efficient wood burner might not seem so bad.
Austroflamm Vogue and Pi-Ko, via Treehugger
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By leyssallenne at 10:20 AM ON 03/06/08
This is so groovy looking I'm going to start saving for one-- or 2!
By Curtis at 12:03 PM ON 03/06/08
These are awesome, especially the second one. I love the new tech look for an age old solution. The top one looks like a dimembered "Bender" from Futurama, but that's not a bad thing.
My mom just built a new house in MO, totally surrounded by a wooded lot. Wind and ice storms tend to produce a lot of tree waste and right now, they rely on propane for heat. The house faces South, so they also get a really good amount of solar gain, but throwing one of these sexy smokers in the living room seems like a no brainer to me.
By Tony C at 11:21 AM ON 03/07/08
"Wood", "long" and "hot" in the title and no mention of the lovely legs reclined on the couch? What is this world coming to?? =)
Great idea, though! But it also appears to only be catering to Europe. Kind of wonder how it does it all, because closed systems like pellet stoves are usually the more efficient of the wood burning type. "Very heavy material" doesn't really tell me much about the "heat memory system stones", though I'd expect it's some sort of ceramic.