I'm fairly certain it would work....

Have a pellet stove with a Stirling Engine mounted into the burn pot, heat generates the combustion cycle, which turns a wheel, that spins a combustion blower and turns an auger, which feeds itself. Opening and closing a restriction plate in the hopper controls heat output. A separate low heat stirling mounted on the top with visible crankshaft control a convection blower in a total steam punk fashion.

Yup...I know it would work. No electricity required.

ScotL said:

It's already being done.
http://www.okofen-e.com/en/pellet_boiler/
http://www.okofen-e.com/en/engine/

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The Okofen uses a sterling engine from Micro-gen to produce electricity from the waste heat. It's not very effective as a usable energy source unless the fire was actually heating the engine directly, which it is not. It just uses the waste heat. The jury is still out to the overall effectiveness of micro-combined heat and power (micro CHP). There is a test market of these devices in use right now in the States. I think about 6 units. Here's a link to the Micro-Gen site. http://microgen-engine.com/

here's a pic:

I'm talking about something different. I dont want to convert mechanical energy to electricity, just turn the fans and augers mechanically with the flywheel