Notice the date. It didn't happen. Again, stirlings are not reliable. They
are either A) inefficient and long lasting or B) efficient and wear out
quickly. They don't even have a C) option with high cost and both efficiency
and long life as far as I can tell. And yet people keep throwing money into
them. I'm sorry, but at what point is that stupid? How much money do we need
to waste on something that has been around for just about forever and has
NEVER been cost effective?

Russell, et all, will now argue the point.

But what is most important to me is that there are viable options OTHER than
stirlings for turning heat into energy that are NOT developed due to the
continued "promise" of stirlings. And some of them are dirt cheap or will
within the means of the average home machinist. For example:

http://techref.massmind.org/techref/member/plp-actcom-f00/sun-turbo-1.htm
Possible quite efficient, long lasting, not terribly expensive.

http://techref.massmind.org/techref/idea/mc-heat-inject.htm Not efficient
but cheap as all heck.

http://www.flashsteam.com/ Not efficient, expensive, but probably long
lasting. If he would use solar, the efficiency doesn't matter so much.

http://www.redrok.com/engine.htm Lots of information on many alternatives.
Not many completed projects.

http://www.fieldlines.com/story/2003/6/26/10248/0825 Lots of crazy ideas
just waiting to be tried.

And in keeping with "money where mouth is" I am interested in providing
partial financial support for the attempted development of any of the above
or other reasonable heat engine ideas OTHER than stirling. In return I get
non-exclusive publishing rights. You just have to document what you do and
the outcome. Pictures, simple text descriptions, measurements of the result.
It doesn't have to actually work, in fact, failure is GREAT because it shows
what not to do in the future.

---
James.
 
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu 
> [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf Of Luis Moreira
> Sent: 2006 Aug 25, Fri 03:28
> To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
> Subject: [OT]:Sandia, Stirling to build solar dish engine power plant 
> 
> Hi Guys,
> 
> A friend as emailed this link to me so I thought I pass it on.
> 
> I absolutely love sterling Engines and I am planning on 
> building one from a few Cans just to see how difficult it is 
> to getting them working.
> 
> 
> I am very pleased to see that Stirling Engines are getting a 
> bit more main-Stream and if you have any more info about 
> them, like calculations, tips, practical ways of using them, 
> please just let me know.
> 
> http://www.sandia.gov/news/resources/releases/2004/renew-energ
y-batt/Sti
> rling.html
> 
> Best regards
> 
>                    Luis
> 
>  
> 
> Luis Moreira
> 
> luis.moreira@jet.uk
> 
> tel. 01235464615
> 
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