Innovation!

I am not really a gadget person but our new acquisition is amazing! LG stumbled across it on Amazon when he was looking for steel toe capped boots for work.....how they're linked I have no idea!!! This little fan increases the output of our woodburning stove by circulating the warm air it generates directly into our lounge and the real amazing thing is that it requires no power at all. In 1821 Thomas John Seebeck discovered the thermoelectric effect, (now commonly known as the Seebeck effect). He discovered that an electrical pulse is generated when two dissimilar metals at different temperatures meet. The thermoelectric module in this fan harnesses the technology that has developed from this law. As the base of the fan heats up, the metal in the bottom of the unit warms along with a heat sensitive spring. Meanwhile, the temperature of the different metal in the unit's top surface is kept down by the fans cooling fins. The greater the differential in temperature of the metals, the greater the electrical output, meaning that our fan turns faster the more our stove heats up.......see what happens when I'm not well enough to get out with the old nordic poles.....you get boring blips and useless information ;-)