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"Ah..., that doesn't apply to Stirling engines", I've been told again and again. If not, why not. The energy represented on a PV diagram depends on path, and the direction traveled on the path. The initial difference between a Stirling Engine and a Stirling cooler is the direction taken o...

Can we see some of your test results demonstrating the Carnot limit using properly calibrated thermal imaging? Thermocouples? Finger feel, "seems hot" readings? Anything? You, Carnot, Kelvin, Clapeyron, Clausius, Maxwell, Gibbs, Boltzmann, Joule, anybody? Has ANYONE verified this so-called...

You seem to have a double standard when it comes to questioning "science". You heap mountains of derision and impossible levels of independent replication and verification etc. etc. on my casual kitchen table experiments but YOUR supposedly established science Carnot/Kelvin "efficienc...

In the video where I pull back the insulation, the IR image and readings seem to indicate a clear division between the hot regenerator (87°F) and cold top plate (62°F) Compress_20240508_133713_3920.jpg The power cylinder is also near the forefront of the image, but this was the first video taken wit...

Maybe the engines I'm getting with the isolated pp will help to resolve the issue of how the pp is heating up?
Can the hot gas travel all the way up that metal stem without loosing heat along the way?

Also if the pp heats up while the engine is running on ice?

I'm still confused Tom. Why would the power piston NOT be warmer? Hot gas is expanding into it.. Not sure how you figure "hot" gas is expanding into the power piston. The cold gas, for the most part, is heated and expanded below the displacer as the displacer raises up and drives cold air...

... What I'm still trying to fathom is why your temperature IR camera, appears to have little experimental control. No known temperatures to read, ice, boiling. ... The camera was factory calibrated. I did tests when I got it. It seemed to read OK using ice, boiling water etc. For relative temperat...

There is an Australian(?I think) company getting into this hydrogen heat. Catalyst technology big time. https://youtu.be/qng_UEQSY04 https://youtu.be/3Lyfn5AooSg Articles I've found though say the catalyst used is "secret", proprietary, patented. Earlier in the previous above video he show...

There is a rather astonishing demonstration of a Stirling engine running on hydrogen gas. Or heat from hydrogen gas but without a flame. The outside of the displacer chamber is coated with some kind of catalyst. The demonstration is well into the video about 23 minutes almost at the end Here he's de...

The description of the regenerator found here: http://hotairengines.org/open-cycle-engine/wilcox-1860/wilcox-hot-air-or-caloric-engine Seems very different from what is depicted in the illustration above. The regenerator design is quite interesting in that it expands radially outward from the center...

One thing I haven't tried yet, I don't think, is running one of the modified LTD engines with a retrofit regenerator on ice/ambient heat. Well, I did once and the engine froze up, or something. Anyway, a slight modification of the drawing I posted earlier in the thread: Compress_20240507_135720_0200...

You could be right. I would have basically agreed up until yesterday, given my newly found "inspiration" that a regenerator is actually, perhaps, more for cooling. To take heat temporarily out of the picture during compression, rather than for just conserving heat necessarily. I can say, a...

Due to the thin brass walls(.015") of the main tube, displacer and power piston, the original Essex has pretty effective regeneration without any additional dead space or flow restriction. I'll try to film a thermal video to show this later. True to some degree I guess. But a "regenerator...

"Pretty obviously the elevated heat signature appearing around the power piston could only be from "work"." Why is that? Could the heat not come from the working fluid? Well, maybe. How? It's the cold side of the engine. The top of the engine in contact with the working fluid is...

I've had recently what I feel is a new insight into the value of a regenerator. I never thought it worth much as a means of storing excess "waste heat" that would otherwise be lost, on the basis that a well designed efficient engine shouldn't have any waste heat, but even so, it seems such...