Since the BioLite will burn almost any biomass fuel; from wood, pine cones, leaves, pellets, rice husks, even dung, it means fuel need not be carried Personall

Since the BioLite will burn almost any biomass fuel; from wood, pine cones, leaves, pellets, rice husks, even dung, it means fuel need not be carried Personally I'd rather not cook my food on burning dung. Still, kids these days with their fancy stoves. In my day we'd build a fire out of sticks and cook our dinner in a billy can, and we didn't get excited that we "didn't need to carry fuel". Probably weighed a fifth of a pound, too. Seriously though, it seems like a good design if you're going somewhere that firewood isn't abundant or building open fires isn't allowed. The fan sucks in air for efficient combustion and the thermoelectrics generate energy to power the fan using waste heat. Neato!