How then, do we move backwards? How does a society, with most of the people having no clue of future events, move from being dependent on a vast and intertwined network of goods and services produced by the indigenous people of whereever, to a local resource and renewable energy based society, and do so in the timeframe available (20-30 years using the most liberal extimates, 10-20 with resonable estimates, 5-10 with worst case scenarios), all the while prices on everything increasing, world politics getting more militaristic, governments continuously reducing civil liberties, shortages of goods on the market and weather patterns resembling bad Hollywood movies?
They appear to be a serious German engineering firm. _________________ All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become. - Buddha
Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 5:25 am Post subject: Re: steam engines?
Whether this particular example may be a scam isn't so important.
That steam and stirling engines should be seriously looked at in relation to Peak Oil is a no brainer. Why? Because they are external combustion engines. _________________ Gravity is not a force, it is a boundary layer.
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Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 5:09 pm Post subject: Re: steam engines?
Agreed, RdSnt.
For anyone not aware of the utility of an external combustion engine, it means you're not necessarily tied to petrol or diesel because any heat source may potentially be used.
A further benefit of the stirling engine is that it is the best at attaining the limits of the carnot (heat) cycle in theory. However, this seems quite difficult in practice as the engines are scaled up in size. _________________ All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become. - Buddha
They seem to be at the leading edge of practical , high powered stirling engines.
What I find most intreging about the Stirling cycle is that it relies on a heat differential. Any heat differential, it doesn't have to be what we conventional think of. Meaning it doesn't necessarily have to be hot.
davep wrote:
Agreed, RdSnt.
For anyone not aware of the utility of an external combustion engine, it means you're not necessarily tied to petrol or diesel because any heat source may potentially be used.
A further benefit of the stirling engine is that it is the best at attaining the limits of the carnot (heat) cycle in theory. However, this seems quite difficult in practice as the engines are scaled up in size.
_________________ Gravity is not a force, it is a boundary layer.
Everything is coincident.
Love: the state of suspended anticipation.
To get any appreciable distance from the Earth in
a sensible amount of time, you must lie.
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