Soviet era Kerosene Lamp Generator gives new meaning to “Let’s fire up the radio!”

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, David Day, who recently shares the newspaper clipping above. I was not aware of this Cold War era kerosene lamp generator, but it's an ingenious use of the thermoelectric effect for power generation. I found yet another another clipping online: Devices that work off of thermoelectric effect have been [...]