Like the illusion of Wall Street, with its vast and powerful investment banks, now shuttered, China too is an illusion perpetuated by the Globalists that gave us the 15,000 mile Caesar salad, poisoned cat food and lead based paint on babies' pacifiers. Like the illusion that money would come from thin air to always push housing prices higher, China has spent a generation pursuing its illusion. Pursuing an unattainable dream to be like the West, while 6000 years of its carefully shepherded top soil blows into the sea.
Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 3:29 pm Post subject: Re: Hot air engines
I've been working on a Stoddard cycle engine for a year or so now, thinking I had invented an improvement to the Stirling. (I just found the patent) As such, I have read an awful lot of stuff on the subject, so I think getting hold of one of those old engines would be really neat.
They are very simply built and quite robust I expect. Just looking briefly, I don't think many on that list are true stirling, but that doesn't matter does it.
Commercially now, there are two manufacturers, one in N.Z., and one in America. As for the old ones, you're looking at probably under 10% efficiency. I say this because Sunpower, a very high tech manufacturer of free piston stirlings gets only 30% efficiency out of their engines. Sunpower has been working on linear alternator free piston stirlings for 30+ years.
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