I want you to all look at this YouTube - FRESNEL SOLAR STIRLING ENGINE SUN POWER ALTERNATIVE ENERGY STIRLING MOTOR GENERATOR
you can use these on wood stoves to circulate heat around your house... Stirling Engine Woodstove Fan - eBay (item 230533980395 end time Oct-08-10 19:01:56 PDT) might be useful especially up north...
A friend of mine came across this last night. He wants to make a much bigger one and see if by gearing it right can make it run a small generator. Just playing around with other ways to produce electricity. This one is way to small and the gearing would have to be much different, but who knows ? Thanks Quigley Sharps
There are commercially available industrial sized stirling generators. THe is a hospital in Tel Aviv that runs entirely on one.
Thanks Seacowboys, I just sent a link you provided to my friend who is considering building one for individule use and for sale to the gen. public. We will have to wait and see what happens with it.
Bump. Do we know anyone that has a sterling engine in use? Looks like it might be a way to charge batteries when the sun goes down, especially if there is some heat available, say from a wood stove or furnace.
That would be great if you could adapt some sort of tube duct to channel hot air right where it's needed..
This is a very interesting little engine. With advanced machining, good bearings and such one of these would run 24/7 off a wood fired heat exchanger. You keep the tube ends red hot and that baby will run and run. It would need to have at least say 10 or 12 hp to run a house generator. Kingfish
wHAT IS REALLY COOL FOR ME IS THAT STM Power is in Ann Arbor Michigan. Thats about 3.5 hours from my house. I will have to call them and ask some questions. Kingfish
Has anyone ever heard of running a generator off a big clock spring? If that were doable I've got a way to wind it
