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06/02/2026

People talk about backup power like electricity is the only thing that matters. But in a real outage, people also need heat, hot water, cooking, light, communication, and battery charging. PiggyPower is built around that bigger picture. It is not just about making watts. It is about using heat more intelligently.

If you already have a wood stove, burner, campfire, hot water loop, or steady heat source, why waste all of that heat? Put heat on one side, cooling water on the other, and now that heat can start producing usable power while still being useful as heat. That is the idea.

06/02/2026

A lot of people compare PiggyPower to solar, but they are missing the bigger picture. Solar is great when the sun is out. PiggyPower is built for heat. Wood stoves, burners, campfires, hot water, waste heat, cabins, RVs, outages, winter storms, and off grid setups where heat is already part of daily life.

The goal is not just “make a few watts.” The goal is to make heat do more work. Electricity, useful heat, and hot water from the same energy source. That is what makes this different. A battery dies. Solar stops at night. A generator is loud and burns fuel just to make power. PiggyPower is about taking a heat source you may already be using and pulling electricity out of that process while still keeping the heat useful.

That is the lane we are building in.

06/02/2026

Power outages make people act like a candle is the backup plan.

That is adorable.

I took a regular candle, a little water, and the PiggyPower Ember, and used that tiny flame to run over 250 LEDs wrapped around my body like I escaped from a government lab.

The idea is simple. Heat goes into the bottom. Water pulls heat away from the top. That temperature difference becomes usable USB power.

No battery hidden under the table. No extension cord. No solar panel praying for sunshine. Just fire, water, and electricity.

The opening clip is slightly sped up so you can see the lights ramp fast, but the actual lights came up in about 15 seconds from a candle. That is the part people need to understand. This is not a trick. This is a tiny flame being turned into useful power.

Now be reasonable. A candle is still a candle. You are not running a microwave, a refrigerator, or some insane fast charger from one little flame. Physics still exists, unfortunately.

But in a blackout, even a small amount of power matters. Lights matter. Charging a phone matters. Keeping a battery bank alive matters. Running a small USB device matters. That is exactly where the Ember shines.

It is built for small heat sources like candles, lighters, alcohol stoves, camp flames, and emergency heat sources you probably already have sitting around your house.

The PiggyPower Ember can output up to 9 watts depending on the heat source and cooling setup, which is enough for real small device power when you actually need it.

The larger PiggyPower systems are for bigger loads, but the Ember is the little chaos machine. It is the one you throw on a table, light a candle under, add water, and suddenly the candle has a job.

This is why I love this product. It makes electricity feel visible. You do not need to understand every detail of thermoelectrics to understand what you are seeing.

Flame on one side.

Water on the other.

Lights turn on.

That is the whole magic trick.

Except it is not magic. It is just heat being used instead of wasted.

Welcome to PiggyPower.

05/31/2026

If you owned a standard candle, you could charge your phone in an emergency.

That sounds insane until you understand what the PiggyPower Ember actually is. The Ember is our smallest thermoelectric generator, designed specifically to work on low heat sources. A candle, hot water, a small flame, a stove, a campfire, or solar heat can all become useful when you create a temperature difference.

One side gets hot. The other side stays cooler. That heat flow moves through the cell and gets converted into usable DC power.

The Ember provides output for up to 3 USB devices, so you can run lights, charge a phone, or power small USB loads from heat that would normally just disappear into the air. In one of our tests, hot water alone was enough to light an entire string of LED lights. That should make people stop and think.

This is also why PiggyPower is different from a normal generator. The Ember is not just making electricity and throwing everything else away. It is a small CHP system, meaning combined heat and power. The same heat source can give you electricity while the remaining heat can still be used for warmth, hot water, cooking, or thermal storage.

That is the part people keep missing.

Solar only gives you electricity when the sun is available. Batteries only give back what you already stored. Gas generators make electricity, but waste a ton of heat. PiggyPower is built around a different idea. Use the heat for more than 1 job.

A candle can make emergency power. Hot water can run lights. A fire can charge devices while still keeping you warm. That is not magic. That is thermoelectric generation.

This is the PiggyPower Ember. Small, simple, and built to prove that heat is a lot more useful than people think.

Welcome to PiggyPower.

05/30/2026

This is actually a combined heat and power system.

The PiggyPower Cell 125 is built around a simple idea. When heat is moving through the cell and cold water is pulling that heat away on the other side, that temperature difference can be turned into usable DC electricity. Heat the bottom, cool the top, and now that heat flow has a second job.

In this test, I am charging a phone, charging headphones, and running a WiFi router at the same time, and that is barely touching the total capacity of the system. This is why people are looking at this the wrong way. It is not just a gadget that makes a tiny light blink. It is a real heat powered generator for practical loads that matter when the power goes out.

The stove is only being used here as a controlled test source. The bigger picture is a wood stove, campfire, grill, rocket stove, or any steady heat source. Anywhere you already have heat, PiggyPower can turn part of that heat flow into electricity while the rest can still be used for hot water, space heat, or thermal storage.

That is what makes combined heat and power different. Normal generators waste energy as heat. Solar does nothing at night. Wind only works when the wind shows up. PiggyPower is different because it is built around heat you can create, store, and use in more than 1 way.

The PiggyPower Cell 125 is not meant to replace your entire electrical panel. It gives you priority power for the stuff that actually matters first. Phones, radios, lights, routers, small electronics, batteries, medical accessories, and emergency loads. In a blackout, that is communication, lighting, information, and basic independence.

Fire plus water equals power. Heat goes in, cold water pulls it through, and electricity comes out. Simple enough to understand, but strong enough to change how people think about off grid and emergency energy.

This is why we built PiggyPower. Not another battery waiting to be charged first. Not another panel waiting on perfect weather. A real heat powered system that can make electricity from a heat source you already have or can create.

05/30/2026

This is the PiggyPower Ember, it is our smallest thermoelectric generator. It works based on a temperature differential. One side gets hot, the other side stays cooler, and that movement of heat through the cell is what gets converted into usable DC power.

In this test, I used hot water. That was enough to light an entire string of LED lights, which is kind of ridiculous when you think about it. No wall outlet. No battery bank. No solar panel. Just heat and cooling working against each other. But it does not stop there, because the Ember has 3 total USB loads, so you can run small devices at the same time.

This is the whole idea behind PiggyPower. Heat is already everywhere. A candle, a stove, a campfire, hot water, solar heat, emergency fuel, all of it can become useful if you can create a temperature difference. The Ember is not meant to power your entire house. It is the smallest unit we make. But it proves something people have been trained to ignore. Heat does not have to be wasted after it does 1 job. It can make electricity too.

We are used to thinking about energy in separate boxes. Electricity comes from 1 thing. Heat comes from another thing. Hot water comes from another thing. PiggyPower is built around a different idea. 1 heat source can give you electricity, hot water, and usable warmth in the same basic system. That is combined heat and power, made smaller and easier for normal people to understand.

The Ember is the entry point. It is small, simple, and visual. Put heat on 1 side, keep the other side cool, and you get usable power out of it. In the real world, that can mean lights during an outage, a phone getting charged, a small USB device staying on, or an emergency setup that still works when solar is useless at night.

A bowl of hot water lit up a whole string of LEDs. A candle can make electricity. A small flame can keep USB loads alive. That should make people stop and think.

This is not magic. This is not a cooler being used wrong. This is a thermoelectric generator doing exactly what it was built to do.

This is the PiggyPower Ember.

05/29/2026

Uncle Sam fears the off grid maxxer.

The PiggyPower Cell 250 is the biggest cell we make. This is the top of the line. This is the one you buy when you are not playing games with backup power.

Most people think backup power means a gas generator screaming in the driveway, or solar panels sitting useless at night while your freezer warms up. PiggyPower goes after the problem differently. Heat works at night. Wood works in a storm. Propane works when the sky is covered. A gas stove works when your furnace quits.

The Cell 250 turns steady heat into DC electrical power while the same water loop can carry usable heat toward hot water, storage, a heat exchanger, or space heating. That is combined heat and power. Electricity and heat from the same source, at the same time.

There are not many combined heat and power systems on the market for normal people. Most are giant commercial systems, overpriced lab toys, or industrial units nobody is putting in a cabin, garage, shed, or emergency setup. PiggyPower is making this practical. American made. Real output. Real use cases. No engine screaming. No fuel tank inside the unit. No sunlight requirement.

The Cell 250 can charge battery banks, run DC loads, power lights, phones, radios, USB gear, pumps, routers, small appliances, and with the right battery and inverter setup, it can help support household loads like a refrigerator. Performance depends on your heat source, cooling water, battery size, inverter, and load. That is not a weakness. That is reality.

A tiny candle will not act like a wood stove. A wood stove will not act like a gas burner. But if you can keep steady heat on the hot side and cooling water moving through the loop, you can keep making power.

And the best part is the heat is not just wasted like a normal generator. The same system that helps you make electricity can also help with warmth, hot water, or thermal storage.

If your furnace goes down, if the grid goes down, if the storm rolls in, you still have fire. You still have heat. Now you can turn that heat into power.

This is PiggyPower.

05/28/2026

One heat source can provide electricity, space heating, and hot water all at once, in one loop, without needing to buy 3 separate systems to do 3 separate jobs. That is the entire point of the Piggy Power Ember.

In this video, the heat source is sunlight concentrated through a Fresnel lens. The Ember is sitting over a bucket of water. The bottom side gets heated, the water side stays cooler, and that temperature difference turns into usable electricity. That electricity is charging my phone while the water is also absorbing the leftover heat.

That is the part people miss. Most energy systems only care about the electricity and throw the rest away as waste heat. Piggy Power is built around using that heat instead of wasting it. Electricity is only 1 part of the loop. The same heat can also become warm water. That warm water can be stored. That stored heat can be used later for comfort, utility, or basic off grid needs.

Solar panels are great for what they are, but they leave a massive amount of energy on the table. Piggy Power is going after total useful efficiency. Not just watts on a screen. Useful heat plus useful electricity from the same source.

A candle, a fire, a wood stove, propane, Sterno, hot water, charcoal, sunlight through a lens, or almost any steady heat source can become a power source when you build the system around heat instead of ignoring it.

This is why Ember matters. It takes something as simple as heat and turns it into practical power you can actually see. A phone charging. Lights running. A small pump moving water. Emergency loads staying alive when the grid is down and the sun is not cooperating.

We are not trying to copy solar. We are building something solar cannot do by itself. Electricity, hot water, and space heating from 1 captured heat loop.

Big Solar lied to you by making people think electricity is the only thing that matters. Heat matters. Stored heat matters. Useful output matters.

And when you count all of it, Piggy Power is aiming to beat solar in total useful efficiency. In the ways that matter most for off grid life, emergency power, and real world survival, we already are.

This is Piggy Power.

05/28/2026

The government fears the man who can produce his own electricity in his own kitchen.

This is the PiggyPower Ember, our smallest power unit.

In this setup, I’m using a tiny Sterno flame and a small jug of water to make real electricity right on a kitchen stove. It is running my phone and firing a 40,000 volt arc without being plugged into the wall. No solar panel. No wind turbine. No perfect weather. Just heat, water, and a simple temperature difference.

That is the whole point of PiggyPower. When the power goes out, most people are stuck waiting. Waiting for the sun. Waiting for the wind. Waiting for a charged battery. Waiting for the grid to come back. Ember gives you another option. Use a candle, Sterno, propane, a campfire, a wood stove, or another steady heat source, and start producing usable power.

This is not meant to run your entire house. It is meant to keep important small loads alive when you need them most. Phones, lights, radios, emergency gear, USB devices, small electronics, and other priority loads. The stuff that actually matters when everything else is dead.

The part people miss is that Ember is more than a little generator. It is a micro CHP unit, which means combined heat and power. While it produces electricity, the water naturally warms up during operation. That warm water can later be used for washing, showering, storing heat, or adding useful warmth to an emergency setup.

So you are not just making electricity. You are also making hot water and capturing usable heat from the same flame.

That is why this type of system can be so efficient when used correctly. Solar gives you electricity when the sun cooperates. Wind gives you electricity when the wind cooperates. PiggyPower uses heat, and heat is something people already use every day for cooking, camping, heating, and surviving cold weather.

This is for cabins, camping, power outages, wood stove owners, preppers, emergency kits, and anyone who wants backup power that does not depend on the weather.

And this is our smallest unit.

It only goes up from here.

This is PiggyPower.

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