FRESNEL SOLAR STIRLING ENGINE SUN POWER ALTERNATIVE ENERGY STIRLING MOTOR GENERATOR
http://www.greenpowerscience.com/ THIS IS ONE OF MY MANY STIRLING ENGINES THAT WAS THE INSPIRATION FOR THE SOLAR STEAM STIRLING HYBRID. …
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http://www.greenpowerscience.com/ THIS IS ONE OF MY MANY STIRLING ENGINES THAT WAS THE INSPIRATION FOR THE SOLAR STEAM STIRLING HYBRID. …
Big Band Charts
Interesting idea.
However, In a world which last year consumed a total (from all sources of energy) just over 480 Quadrillion British Thermal Units, it is of little practical use.
The problem with providing a solution to the world’s dependence on fossil fuels, has always been how you get around the realities of the Laws of Thermodynamics?
Simply put, you can’t.
However, if a solution did somehow present itself, how responsible would mankind be with it?
That is the more important issue.
this is far from a new idea, andthe big problem about this type of engine is of course how it’s gonna run with no sun.
If is is a couldy day?
But i was suprised how long it stored the warm air, and this is a very good alternative to places that has much sun and little clouding, like deserts.
So all in all a good idea for backup energy but i can power anything real time because of the unstable energysource.
another you tube video demonstrating the same thing claims it’s a matter of scale: 30′ gets 30KW
Yep, and this thing isn’t generating enough for practical power generation.
Any kind of new energy ideas works for me. Search SuperWaveFusion and you will be amazed… A real breakthrough could be happening.
Isn’t it the available torque that can drive a generator the question ?
Awesome for demostrating the Laws of Thermodynamics. Trucking useless for practical application.
actually, just fyi, Mexican immigrations is at its lowest in years and is excepted to turn into migration back into Mexico within the next 2 years.
how much did you spend for this engine?
That does not necessarily explain the last 8 years, highest “migration” ever. I think anything different than the last 8 years is a step in the right direction. Mexico has sun, waves and wind. Boosting their economy with alternative energy possibilities benefits both. Moving away from fossil fuels is the best choice. 100% is not realistic but ever 5% drops in crude demand reduces crude oil prices dramatically.
Solar can reach remote areas in need.
The problem with alternative energy solutions comes down to control and what I call the paradise paradox. Let us suppose that President Obama achieved everything he says he wants to achieve for the US - less dependency on foreign oil, and increased alternative energy sources FOR THE USA. What about Mexico ? Their economy is based on oil, which is depleting fast. I expect huge waves of migration unto the USA, negating the benefits for alt. energy solutions in the years ahead.
Who can answer that question?
Very Fascinating idea here maybe a grand solution
FAIL. guess what, they heat water to super-heated, super compressed state, and push it through a turbine to generate electricity. super heated oil is not as good as water, since water hold more energy per unit mass, and since it is in vapor state, it will give off more energy as it expands and condenses. your oil idea sounds good, but if it worked, it would’ve been done decades ago
i doubt it. if you cool the engine by rotating a fan, that fan is exerting a resistance to the engine’s motion. what you can do, however, is have heat-pipes to a water supply (preferably running, like stream or river) and cool the “cold” side of the engine. and heat-recycling would be extremely hard. the hottest part is where the heat is applied, and heat only moves away from there, unless u got a heat pump, which still will make it less efficient
yes, if you can get a city-block sized lens to focus light on to the hot region of the engine. it only worked without the lens for that long because the focused light heated the engine up to an incredible temperature. if you want the engine to run through few days of no sun, not only need a huge lens, you also need some sort of system where you can take the hot region off and store it in a thermo so it can be used later on
Something like this would be good for recharging solar batteries after a few days of no sun.
the $64,001 question is.. can you transform that motion into electric and store it, and if so can you can you get more energy that way than using solar panels alone?
I have a heliostat system which cost effective
Those always make me smile. I made one cheaply out of tin cans and put it on my channel. Enjoy!
I discuss the working of the stirling engine on my site, feel free to take a look and point out any mistakes
Likely inventing alternative energy is just the easy part.Beating the mother off all interest called the oil industry(that pretty much owns the military-industrial-media -intelligence complex)to systematically integrate it is the hard part.
Would be “slightly” naive to assume they’d simply say bye bye to their trillion dollar industry not?
Could this Stirling demo engine be made more efficient if some of the flywheel energy was used to drive a fan over the cooling fins to increase the temperature differential inside the engine? And can some of the extracted heat from the cooling end be recycled and fed back to the heated end?
You might be interested to know Stirling Energy has created a 25kW version that uses a 38 foot dish and a 4-95 (4 95cc cylinders) stirling engine - it even tracks the sun.