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Stirling Engines - Solve Energy Needs?



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KCET, Public TV in LA ran this story about "Stirling Engine" powered solar electric generating technology. If true, we may be able to kiss nuclear power plants good bye.


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awesome! i could ... ( 1 year ago by jkid1190)
awesome! i could use this for a project!!! ty for posting this!!!
I found a DIY ... ( 1 year ago by luvofcountry)
I found a DIY project for a parabolic solar reflector that anyone (even I) can build. Ingenious design, too. Go to instructables "dotcom" and search for "multifacet" and "parabolic". Good luck.
sould be 50% not 20% ( 11 months ago by colin340)
sould be 50% not 20%
I'm not sure where ... ( 11 months ago by hyperkinetic)
I'm not sure where you're getting your misinformation, but you may want to avoid that source in the future. This device is still under joint development between SES, Sandia National Labs, and Boeing. They're only in phase two and have already achieved >400 hours MTBF. While still not great, it's just a matter of materials and engineering to remedy this.
What a GIANT load ... ( 11 months ago by hyperkinetic)
What a GIANT load of CRAP! Please spare us the moronic conspiracies. The *FACTS* are that SANDIA NATIONAL LABS are *partners* along with Boeing in the development of this technology. Tax dollars WELL spent. If you have evidence to the contrary, then CITE YOUR SOURCES!
Or the Republiscum ... ( 11 months ago by hyperkinetic)
Or the Republiscum find a way to bury it all together. Given the choice, I'd rather *pay* for a choice rather than be fucked out of the option.
their website news ... ( 10 months ago by whiterabbitpress)
their website news page hasn't been updated since dec 2006. I guess things didn't work out. I emailed them but the email bounced (not deliverable). oh well!
has anyone thought ... ( 9 months ago by 1888junkteam)
has anyone thought about placing the stirling solar power engines along side the wind genrators.. you can double the output with the same amount of square footage area required to install them... amybe the blades will get in the way of the sun rays
ive never really ... ( 9 months ago by 1888junkteam)
ive never really understood the concept of expensive energy... shouldn't energy always be on the plus side im mean if its not enrgy creating is energy consuming...so shouldn't all energy put you on us on the plus side?
isnt energy like ... ( 9 months ago by 1888junkteam)
isnt energy like money in the bank... cheap energy is saves you 25cents expensive energy saves you a penny ...but either way shouldnt you end up on the plus side?
its funny , you ... ( 9 months ago by wayconservative)
its funny , you can't buy a stirling engine, except for beer cans and toy models thats all I see here , this sounds good but why cant you buy one
"it's just a matter ... ( 9 months ago by spurcross)
"it's just a matter of materials and engineering to remedy this"
I could say the same thing about desktop fusion.
I am looking for a single example of any commercially successful, sustained application of Stirling engine power. I can't find it. The world is full of museum pieces that sit and spin. Why, after 200 years, is there no real-life examples of a man taking one of these and doing real work with it?
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for any forms of alt. energy that we can benefit from.
You can buy office ... ( 9 months ago by 441rider)
You can buy office toys as well but my motors will be the first high heat motors available for kits or assembled eventually. Production of parts of good quality is tough and that is why you do not see as many for sale. These in video could cost into the hurdreds of thousands each.
It will be possible ... ( 9 months ago by fyredog201)
It will be possible to buy one in the near future. Check out a company called Infinia. The make dish type sterling power generators like these ones but better looking. The produce optimally 3kw per day.
Suppression? ( 8 months ago by Nichen)
Suppression?
I think wind ... ( 8 months ago by desertblbuesman)
I think wind machines would block sun, but I thought of putting them around oil pumps down around Artisia NM. Roads are there allready, and so is a wire to each pump. I think PV is allready the winner as far as ecomomy though.
it wouldnt block it ... ( 6 months ago by mjerew)
it wouldnt block it by that much
the fan running off ... ( 6 months ago by desertblbuesman)
the fan running off the heat on top of a wood stove is a good use of sterling. directly coupled to the source application. Commercially successful?
Sadly, it is far ... ( 6 months ago by spurcross)
Sadly, it is far from commercially successful.
"Major reliability problems with ...Stirling engine included [too numerous too mention]. That means that on average once every 40 hours a problem of some type required shut down and maintenance. Nearly continuous maintenance was necessary to keep the system "available" to generate electricity."
From Barry Butler, a PhD expert in Stirling solar technology. google kdfullerblogspot and go to 4/17/08
Poster said "If ... ( 5 months ago by pantadon)
Poster said "If true, we may be able to kiss nuclear power plants good bye." in description. What?? Nuclear power is GREAT, the newest plant we have operational at the moment is from the early 70's and it's virtually impossible to make melt down by any terrorist act or otherwise. Waste is nearly nothing and we have 50 billion dollar Yukka Mountain built for storing the rods. What we need to get rid of is oil and coal plants that throw crap into the air and which use non-renewable resources.
Swedish submarines ... ( 4 months ago by Zohnorg)
Swedish submarines run on stirling engines (for silence). They are also used as commercial
cryocoolers. (Stirling engines, not the subs...)
Only they talking ... ( 3 months ago by mieszalniapasz)
Only they talking talking and talking but they doing everything so that it doesn't happen this way...
waste is nearly ... ( 1 month ago by xaxaas4)
waste is nearly nothing? NOTHING but radioactive moron!
uh hello all the ... ( 1 month ago by andresayz4545)
uh hello all the radiation produced by the power plant is absorbed by the concrete shell that surrounds it duh, plus jettisoning the waste into space is a viable alternative as well can you do that with all the co2 created by fossil fuel poqer plants?



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