After Grid Sustainability Experts

1. duad66
   December 28th, 2009 - 16:49

   Nice video demonstrating the use of solar energy and the stirling cycle engine. Keep up the excellent work.
2. andrew0901280
   January 8th, 2010 - 21:07

   so could you hook it to an electric heater and heat the motor to run the heater and have free heat?
   this is the first ive heard of these engines so i dont know a thing about them but i like the thought
3. ikidd3123
   January 9th, 2010 - 14:41

   If heating were your goal, you wouldn’t place this in the middle, reducing efficiency, you would just use the sunlight that heats the air chamber directly. This is to demonstrate building mechanical power from heat energy, which has it’s own uses. The actual amount of energy this produces (especially at this scale) would be rather low, probably sufficient to drive a small light bulb.
4. jiros10
   January 11th, 2010 - 18:12

   I’ve seen a lot of Stirling Engines, but all of them are small size. What is the power they can generate ? If this system were able to generate power I reckon It would be spread in many seats. It seems just can generate passage but without a reasonable amount of energy.
5. rlarue1
   January 14th, 2010 - 15:26

   Wow, the lens really concentrates a lot, and in a smaller space than a parabolic mirror
6. kalamar73
   January 17th, 2010 - 15:00

   It by now uses heat as input. Why to triple convert it with losses if you are not electric junkie?
7. Beaverman20
   January 18th, 2010 - 08:48

   could be pretty cool if you could cool it with ln2
8. porkypinekiwi
   January 31st, 2010 - 22:01

   same as a coal train. but how did you get one so huge?
9. AlexanderCastello
   February 1st, 2010 - 20:43

   Hi. Very appealing.

   I have some questions:

   1) Could you add a dinamo to this engine?
   2) Could you do a system that follows the Sun?
10. hitcb
    February 2nd, 2010 - 03:23

    you’d be in succession a energy shortage doing that… it wouldnt be possible according to the laws of thermodynamics
11. jaydenkanecurtis
    February 2nd, 2010 - 03:40

    Can a sterling engine be powered by magnets?
12. fzappa
    February 2nd, 2010 - 21:42

    Wouldnt be possible to do what?
13. hitcb
    February 3rd, 2010 - 05:18

    sorry was supposed to be a answer to andrew0901280
14. jamesfriendly
    February 7th, 2010 - 09:22

    now wouldn’t it be cool if the gov would have send out items like this to be manufactured for seats that need it and stimulated the economy with “free” energy… some low users could have used a few of these,,,
15. FreindlyRanger
    February 7th, 2010 - 20:10

    Is there one of these that runs off rain, we don’t get any sun here in Ireland. LOL.
16. Macisaur
    February 9th, 2010 - 21:17

    @FreindlyRanger Yes. It’s called Hydroelectric.
17. Macisaur
    February 10th, 2010 - 15:04

    You don’t want that, it’s a waste of Vodka.
18. FreindlyRanger
    February 10th, 2010 - 18:59

    Wow, I didn’t know you spoke Irish. LOL.

    Is maith liom Vodka.
19. gesnarfel
    February 12th, 2010 - 00:34

    What is the power output of the Stirling engine? Is there somewhere to get a blueprint of this sterling so that it may be built by experimenters?
20. juggernautxtr
    February 13th, 2010 - 13:20

    @gesnarfel
    depends on the weight of the glide wheel the heavier and larger the glide wheel the more torque it will have. the harder it will be to slow down.
21. Dabbu
    March 2nd, 2010 - 01:27

    if ur income in a cloudy rainy area, just dig a hole deep sufficient to get some lava! Then it’s a done deal.
    : )
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    March 24th, 2010 - 11:05

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