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08/24/2026

One of the biggest misconceptions with thermoelectric systems is that every component near the heat source has to somehow survive the same temperature as the flame. That isn’t how the Ember works. The water moving through the system carries heat away continuously, which keeps the cold side and the tubing at a much lower temperature than the actual heat source.

That’s also why heat source flexibility is such a big part of the design. You’re not locked into one specific fuel or burner. The Ember only cares that you can create and maintain a useful temperature difference across the cells. That can come from Sterno, candles, a small stove, hot metal, solar heated surfaces, or plenty of other sources depending on what you have available.

You still need normal cable management and you obviously don’t want wires sitting directly in a flame. But the system itself is designed around managing that heat while turning part of the temperature difference into usable electrical power.

That simplicity is really the whole point of PiggyPower. Heat is everywhere. The goal is giving you another way to actually use it.

08/21/2026

The Ember only needs two things to make power. Heat and water.

That heat does not have to come from an open flame. Set it on a wood stove, use it over a camp stove, run it from another suitable heat source, or take it with you camping. As long as you can maintain a hot side and circulate cooling water through the system, the Ember can generate electricity.

And that is what makes this more interesting than a typical generator.

The water carrying heat away from the generator does not simply become waste. It comes out hot, which means that thermal energy can potentially be put to work too. You could circulate it through a small hydronic system, use it for washing, preheat water, or simply recover heat that would otherwise be thrown away.

So while the Ember is producing USB power, it is also moving useful heat into water.

No gasoline engine. No moving parts inside the generator. No requirement for direct flame.

Just heat, water, and electricity.

08/19/2026

I wanted to post this again because it didn’t get much traction the first time. This is still a work in progress, but I genuinely think there’s something useful here.

In this video, I’m showing how with basically just heat and water, we can start building what I’d call a complete off grid civilization kit.

The electric stove you see here is only being used because it gives me a clean, controlled heat source for the demonstration. The real idea is that a system like this could sit on a wood stove, rocket stove, biomass burner, or another heat source you’re already using anyway.

Instead of letting all of that heat simply disappear into the room or up a chimney, we can recover some of it and turn it into useful electricity through thermoelectrics.

That electricity can run things that actually matter when the grid is down. Lights, communication equipment, pumps, charging devices, refrigeration, medical equipment, and plenty of other low power loads.

And the cooling water doesn’t have to be wasted either. It absorbs heat from the system and can become useful hot water for washing, showering, storage, or even hydronic space heating depending on how the system is configured.

So I’m trying to combine electricity, hot water, heat recovery, and basic infrastructure around a heat source you may already have burning.

This is still early, and there’s plenty I want to improve, but that’s the direction I’m pushing PiggyPower toward.

08/18/2026

Honestly, I didn’t really have a goal for this video. I saw a guy doing corona discharge photography and started wondering if I could replicate something similar using a Fresnel lens I had, being that it’s nonconductive.

I definitely didn’t get the cool photography results he got, but I did manage to absolutely fry my high voltage module in the process. Worth it for the footage though.

The longest arcs I observed were well over 12 inches. Using the rough rule of about 30,000 volts per centimeter for air breakdown, 12 inches works out to roughly 914,000 volts, so once you’re well beyond that you’re getting into roughly million volt territory.

Arc length is not a precise way to measure voltage because electrode shape, humidity, pressure, and the type of discharge all matter, but either way, this was some seriously high voltage.

Hope you guys enjoyed watching me sacrifice another piece of equipment for science.

And for my haters watching me, no tables were harmed in this process.

08/18/2026

Most people see a flame and only think about the heat. But there’s a lot of energy there that normally just disappears into the air.

The PiggyPower Ember is built to grab some of that heat and turn it directly into usable electricity. One side gets hot from a small flame while water keeps the other side cool. That temperature difference is what generates the power.

There’s no engine, no alternator, and no moving parts required to make the electricity. Just heat on one side, cooling on the other, and you have power available right there on the spot.

That means the same little fire you’re already using for cooking, heating water, or staying warm can also help charge a phone, run lights, power USB devices, or keep small electronics going during an outage.

Fire has been giving us energy forever. The Ember just gives you another way to use it.

08/15/2026

What would you do if the gas ran out?

A hurricane hits and everybody has the same first thought. Go fill the cars. Fill the gas cans. Get fuel for the generator before the pumps are empty.

But nobody is raiding the hardware store over bags of wood pellets, charcoal, isopropyl alcohol, scrap wood, or whatever else you can burn.

That is the whole idea behind PiggyPower.

My systems can use essentially any heat source. In this video, I am running my Cell 40 over a small alcohol burner and using that heat to make electricity.

The Cell 40 is one of my mid range systems. It is great for charging phones, batteries, running lights, small appliances, communications equipment, and other basic loads when the grid goes down.

But if you really want to get crazy, especially if you already have something like a wood stove, boiler, fireplace, or another serious heat source, that is where I would point you toward the Cell 125 or Cell 250.

The Cell 250 can produce up to 250 watts of electricity while also capturing useful heat at the same time.

Over a five hour period, that can mean up to roughly 70 phone batteries worth of electrical energy while also heating up to around 160 gallons of water, depending on the setup and operating temperatures.

That is what makes these systems different.

You are already burning the fuel. PiggyPower lets you get more out of it.

Electricity for your devices. Hot water for showering and cleaning. Space heating for your home.

And the fuel does not have to come from a gas station.

When everybody else is fighting over the pumps, a bag of charcoal, wood pellets, alcohol, scrap wood, or even a wood stove you already own can suddenly become a source of emergency power.

That is the kind of energy independence I am trying to build with PiggyPower.

08/13/2026

This video might make some people upset. I’m not saying this to be provocative. I’m saying this because it genuinely made me sick, and we need to do better as humans. I’m Catholic, and I run another page with nearly 200,000 followers. I reached out to that audience asking if anyone on the ground in Gaza could help me get these generators to people who needed them. To my surprise, people answered. I found someone actually living there who wanted them and told me how useful they could be, but he also told me it didn’t matter what I tried to send. Israel was blocking the shipments. Food, medical aid, basic supplies, everything. He told me I would not be able to get these generators across the border to him either.

That made me sick because these units can run from something as simple as a candle or a can of Sterno and turn that heat into usable electricity for lights, phones, batteries, and other basic equipment. I had people who needed them. I was willing to donate them. I had someone ready to receive them. And I still couldn’t get them there. This is not the world Christ wanted for us. Christ commanded us to love our neighbor and care for those in need. If our brother is suffering and we have the ability to help him, then we should help him.

I’m not giving up. If you believe in what I’m trying to do, support PiggyPower however you can. Buy something, share this video, or simply help spread the word. Every bit of support helps me keep building these things and hopefully find a way to get them into the hands of people who actually need them. We can do better than this.

08/12/2026

I'm not an expert on quartz luminescence, and I'm definitely not claiming I recreated NASA's experiment exactly. This is just the best explanation I've found for what I'm seeing here, so if you know more about this stuff, feel free to chime in.

NASA actually published a paper on something very similar called Observation of Quartz Cathode-Luminescence in a Low Pressure Plasma Discharge.

In their experiment, they exposed quartz powder to an RF excited argon plasma and got an intense, steady glow from the quartz. Their explanation was basically that energetic electrons from the plasma hit the quartz and excite electronic states inside the material. When those states relax back down, that energy gets released as visible light.

But here's where it gets really cool.

They measured the light coming from the quartz from about 400 to 850 nanometers, covering basically the entire visible spectrum and even stretching into the near infrared. The emission was so broad and intense that it actually started washing out the individual spectral lines from the argon plasma that was exciting it.

They even looked at whether the quartz was simply getting ridiculously hot and glowing like a normal hot object. According to the paper, producing that spectrum through heat alone would imply a temperature around 4,800 K. The quartz would've been destroyed long before reaching that, so they concluded that electron induced luminescence was the primary mechanism.

And that's why this experiment caught me so off guard.

Most of the time my high voltage just arcs around this rock. But when I hit the quartz at exactly the right spot and angle, the arc stays relatively small while the entire rock suddenly lights up like a damn light bulb.

Is that exactly the same phenomenon NASA documented? I can't prove that without doing spectroscopy on it. But quartz cathode luminescence is by far the coolest explanation I've found so far, and it describes what I'm seeing surprisingly well.

08/11/2026

You guys asked, I listened, and I tried it out.

A bunch of you recommended I try making the fuel pucks in a different shape, so I found this little press on Amazon and figured it was worth testing.

Unfortunately… yeah. This did not go exactly how I pictured it 😂

That’s part of building stuff though. Sometimes you find a better way to do it, and sometimes you spend money on Amazon just to prove the original design was better.

Either way, I’m still experimenting with different shapes, pressures, and designs to make these things as practical as possible.

Let’s see what happens.

08/11/2026

You ever wonder what happens when you blast a light bulb with voltages it was never designed to handle? Me too. A Tesla coil can excite the gas inside a fluorescent tube and make the phosphor coating glow without even plugging it in. Pretty cool, right?

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