Anker Electronics, a global leader in reusable and portable power packs, announced today an electronic-based camping stove system that eliminates the need for backpackers to carry isobutane gas cylinders to boil water or cook food on the road. Powered by USB-C compatible rechargeable batteries, this new, ultra-light “Hermes” stove system uses an electric burner that boils water faster and cleaner than existing stoves while reducing waste and pollution along the way. Being completely flameless, the Hermes wilderness cooking stove will also reduce the threat of backyard forest fires.
Today, backpackers and campers carry stoves fueled by isobutane or propane canister gas, which are sold only in high-pressure metal containers that are often dumped in landfills or landfills. In contrast, the Hermes induction cooking system is fully electric, powered by a rechargeable battery and requires no flame. It creates a magnetic field that generates electric currents inside the metal of your cooking pot, so very little energy is lost to the surrounding air, and it uses energy more efficiently than gas. If this sounds like rocket science, it is. But it completely eliminates the need for cooking gas, fossil fuels, or open flames for cooking in the wilderness.
Powering electric cookstoves is nothing new. Our homes are full of them. “The real technological breakthrough,” said Zhou Jianbincha, a next-generation battery expert and head of Anker’s Advanced Technology Lab,” was inventing a small induction coil that uses a rechargeable battery and makes the battery much lighter than the one currently used in gas grills, to use the same amount of energy during cooking.
The first Hermes wilderness cooking system includes a fully integrated 1L cooking pot, induction stove, and rechargeable battery pack in a single 6″ x 8″ cylinder, weighing 15.8 oz and similar in size to the Jetboil 1L Flash. It has an on/off switch, a dial to adjust the output of the induction stove, an illuminated cooking pot, and a high-capacity lithium-ion battery with USB-C input and output ports, so you can use it to recharge other electronic devices if you choose. It will initially be available at REI and Anker’s Amazon flagship store.
“Besides its obvious environmental benefits, what makes this new stove system exciting is its level of disruptive innovation”, said former Nobel laureate Simon Johnson, Ronald A. Kurtz Professor of Business at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. “The Hermes Wilderness Power System Architecture is poised to replace all fossil-fueled wilderness power systems, starting with core stoves, but quickly expanding to other areas. It’s like powering submarines with nuclear reactors instead of diesel.”
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