Originally Posted By OregonMouse
Review of the BioLite by Philip Werner of sectionhiker.com:
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it took me 2 hours of burning wood in the BioLite to bring a empty Samsung GalaxyS Smartphone battery up to 50% power. The stove only holds a small amount of fuel and I had to constantly add more wood to the fire to keep the heat level high enough to keep it charging.


I think that's a bit whiny. Without the Biolite your phone would still be dead, and if you're sitting in camp after sunset doing nothing but feeding sticks to a fire, well, that's not all that bad a way to spend an evening.

And what we're talking about is really 1st generation products here, and the fact that you can charge your phone by burning sticks is pretty amazing (the fact that you have a phone like that to charge is absolutely amazing).

Lewis CK's thoughts on that help me appreciate what's good about this kind of thing more. He really puts this into a perspective that's impossible to argue with, and he's pretty darn funny about it too laugh
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