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Sister, can you spare $12,000 to help me decarbonize my home?

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The Backup by BioLite is the company’s first non-outdoor item and comes in either a 1.5kWh or a dual-unit 3kWh system.

It mounts on a wall either vertically or horizontally and sticks out less than three inches so it can live behind a fridge.

With the Backup, you could schedule the fridge to run on battery power at night , then swap to direct power during the day .

Copper Charlie can run on a standard outlet thanks to the (big!) 5kWh battery inside.

In a power outage, it can cook three to five meals.

Biolite’s other booth-mate at CES , Gradient, showed off their own plug-in appliance, the Gradient All-Weather window heat pump.

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