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Justalabrat

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Re: Closed chamber Stirling engine generator.
« Reply #45 on: May 29, 2009, 09:11:03 PM »

Groundloop

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Re: Closed chamber Stirling engine generator.
« Reply #46 on: May 29, 2009, 09:59:34 PM »
Justalabrat,

This was a great video! :-) A linear Stirling engine powering a lot of LEDs. Do you know if Youtube user "lecorfec" has a web site?

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Groundloop.

Justalabrat

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Re: Closed chamber Stirling engine generator.
« Reply #47 on: May 29, 2009, 10:45:42 PM »
No, i was just surfing youtube and thought it might fit this thread.

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Artic_Knight

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Re: Closed chamber Stirling engine generator.
« Reply #48 on: December 06, 2009, 07:08:57 PM »
i hope i have not joined this discussion too late. i myself am interested in owning a sterling engine but i have some ideas that may help in the overall usage and development of this.

i have a very low power idea for air conditioning systems its current tech too!
i seen these plastic advertising boards on the road, they have hollow channels or straw like structures to them, they come in black,. there is a tutorial on how to convert them to solar hot water heaters! if we use this and a large partially insulated bladder (the ground will also insulate) we can store a substantial amount of heat from the roof. use this hot water coupled with a radient style heating system for the house at the cost of just one 6v water pump! this can be coupled with a 20watt solar panel and a car battery, connected to a thermostat we can also use a cold water cooling system, this can be cold water powering a normal coil based ac system. again powered by 6volt water pump convection controls most of the system (hot air rises cold sinks) now what excess heat we have can be used for the sterling and the cold water can come from a ground loop geothermal (stays 56f or less) we have a virtually free heating and air system and during periods of excess we can power a sterling :D

the down side to the AC portion of this system is that its a bit costly as ive designed, geothermal and ground bladders arent cheep. but i think we can create a "helper system" that can keep our current AC system from turning on so much with some cheeply salvaged parts and again with a sterling can produce some electricity too!

what do you think?

jadaro2600

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Re: Closed chamber Stirling engine generator.
« Reply #49 on: December 07, 2009, 04:33:49 AM »
Stirlings are some of the easier engines to build.  I'm surprised there aren't more being employed at nuclear facilities,.. anywhere geothermal.

Artic_Knight

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Re: Closed chamber Stirling engine generator.
« Reply #50 on: December 08, 2009, 03:43:47 AM »
perhaps we should try a open source stirling engine, the design focus of which would be on creating a easy build cheep and effecient design? the one tube design is a nice idea perhaps we could build on that get get a good working model.  i estimated design costs for my ac unit say a small scale salvaged model at 600 bux ish. that should be like any ac unit just adjust the temp and it does the rest. if we were to throw in a microcontroller we could have it siphon off extra energy into electricity automatically without user intervention.