Some time ago I wrote about a metal supported SOFC system for developing countries in Africa, where the device was meant to be put into the burning stove. The company is now trying to develop the technology further and built a camping stove with built in fuel cell to generate electricity. They try to get funding through the Kickstarter platform. You can try to get one of the devices for as low as 79$ (+20 for shipping to Europe). I think it is a very good price. I pledged for the 138$ option where you also buy the Voto unit for Kenya. I hope they will be successful as I would like to get one of these devices. I would really be using this device on my camping trips. Too bad it will be delivered after summer.

You can find more info on the Kickstarter site:  LINK

In a recently released Journal of Power Sources (vol. 241, pp. 477-485, 2013) a very interesting and important publication about operation of SOFC stack test was published. It was submitted by FZ Juelich in Germany, one of the leading players in the SOFC area. Stack reached more than 40000 hours and I think it is the only publication with such a long test. It proves that this technology can be regarded as feasible. More information about the findings in this report I will try to write soon...

Publication - link to publication on the Elsevier platform.