deMolay wrote:Anybody here up on Stirling Engines? They were invented about 1816 by a Rev. Stirling in England. It could be a far better answer than hydrogen or some of the more hightech solutions. They work, have been around for almost 200 years and are fairly simple. They can be build by people who are trained in machine shop. I have been looking at them for about 10 years and never thought their day would come again, I think this design needs updating and modernizing. What are your thoughts? http://www.stirlingengines.org.uk/pioneers/pion2.html
-more efficient than internal combustion engines
beefstuinit wrote:2667 square miles ~50 square miles.
Doly wrote:beefstuinit wrote:2667 square miles ~50 square miles.
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Ludi wrote:Fortunately, wind and solar power can be locally produced, eliminating the need for long transmission lines...
neo wrote:I had a chance to talk to the founder of this company last year, and got a chance to look into some technical details of design. From what I know (I used to be a physicist and now a electric engineer), this is the closest thing we have to silver bullet to mitigatge the upcoming energy crisis (not only peak oil). But I haven't heard anything about them for about a year. I won't be suprised that this company breaks out; but I won't be suprised that this company may fail either. Looks like all they need is couple of hundreds of million dollars to build the power plant since they got the contracts already. I don't understand why it is so difficult to raise that tiny piece of fund; that is much less than a typical Las Vegas or New Year condo building.
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