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Max Chinnah, from Nigeria, has developed and patented a smokeless stove (Genesys) that converts heat energy into electricity, which is then output through a USB outlet. He currently lives in the US and is the CEO of Terraoak Inc., a company he has co-founded with Ghanaian Godwin Attigah.
Sources: terraoak.com - tomsfinds.com
In 2016, this innovation won a prize ($10,000) at Yale University’s Global Health Innovation Conference. This amount allowed them to test the stove under harsh conditions in Ghana to prove that the technology worked efficiently.
There are dramatic health hazards of cooking over open fires, which is a common practice in several African countries. Such a repeated practice can lead to respiratory complications. Thus the necessity to generate heat, without smoke, as well as covert it into electricity and output it through a USB jack to charge a phone or other small electronic devices.
The Terraoak Genesys uses an air injection system to control the smoke which is being produced to form a convection process. Thus allowing the heat to power a USB device. Also, the stove is built with a multipurpose frame so that one can use most cookware used in a kitchen. The stove is built with an anodized Aluminum chamber in order to withstand corrosion over time.