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You can register using your Google, Facebook, or Twitter account, just click here.Where do we make reservations ?☺Pretty interesting. I was wondering what ya'll think.
http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2016/06/15/man-builds-100mpg-engine-using-200-year-old-technology/
Can you imagine the conversation (after a "couple" beers) at the kitchen table that ended with this engine. "Ya know, what would happen if ya . . . ."Before I even opened the article, my first thought was, "So, did he use a stirling engine?"
Yup, that's what it is. But as a generator for an electric car, which is actually kind of brilliant. Because the stirling is an external-combustion engine, you can operate it with any sort of fuel without risking damage to the engine. So in theory, you could build a wood-fired hybrid electric if you wanted to.
I read about NASAs experiments with stirling cars, and they were trying to operate it like a typical ICE, where the stirling drove the wheels directly. Operating the stirling as a constant-RPM generator makes it far more efficient (and better suited to the stirling cycle). The wonderful thing about this is, because it is a heat-difference engine, it would function even more efficiently in cold weather.
Okay, so I am really taken with this idea.
Now, if we could try this with this stirling Quasiturbine concept, that would be pretty sweet!