Stirlingengineforum.com

There was another installation of Infinia solar-Stirling Power Dish system at a Frito Lay plant that produces Sun Chips. The dishes were to be used to charge their electric delivery trucks: The dishes will power the plant’s electric delivery vehicles. Appropriately, those trucks will distribute SunC...

The stated goal at that time, aside from deploying these as power generators for the US military in Afghanistan and Iraq, was also to make military bases in the states more secure by allowing them to generate their own power, independent of the grid. "This is a glimpse, just a glimpse of the fu...

Once the military focused attention on these engines as a potential strategic "national security" asset that could be deployed in Afghanistan, Infinia, a company that seemed to be on top of the world with a bright future ahead for unlimited expansion quite abruptly went "bankrupt"...

Infinia did complete an installation at the Tooele Army base in Utah. https://vimeo.com/48084629 This is a Google Earth screenshot (taken on my phone just now) Resize_20240315_223216_6381.jpg It appears to still be in service, at least the area looks like it is being maintained. From the ground, it ...

... I did find a free piston Sterling 5KVA Generator if you have $50K USD (they did offer to sell me a refurbished one with no warranty for $30K, thanks but no thanks). ... Here is the the website for Qnergy, https://qnergy.com/tech/ and the YouTube video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH8RBcyFDe...

Just an FYI: A phonon is a "photon" of sound. From phone meaning sound or voice, and quantum mechanical wave particle duality. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonon#:~:text=The%20name%20phonon%20comes%20from,phonons%20give%20rise%20to%20sound. Heat is transferred at the speed of light by...

I think, aside from the above considerations, this revised statement: "1 Joule is 1 Newton of force applied to a system/object for a distance of 1 meter. AKA: Energy." Is still not accurate, or not applicable in the context. Torque and Energy are fundamentally different. Simply applying a ...

Fool said: "1 Joule is 1 Newton of force used to move an object 1 meter of distance. AKA: Energy." Thanks to Tom. It should read: 1 Joule is 1 Newton of force applied to a system/object for a distance of 1 meter. AKA: Energy. No motion of the system is necessary. ... I'm really not sure a...

Some additional ideas and possibilities: I have some used, or more or less "broken" or barely functional model engines kicking around that I have an idea I might be able to convert to phase change "rice" engines. And of course, some cans, mason jars and lots of other stuff I've b...

To be clear, I've never proposed that radiant transfer has any effect on clear air; in. fact the opposite. I've only said that I think radiant heating of a heater, and radiant cooling of a cooler, that would then conduct heat to/from the working fluid, could be very significant. Apologies for any m...

Hmm the only mechanical influence here would be the gas velocity moving through the displacer ports that could potentially reach that speed. But with a highly effective chamber, could the gas change temperature fast enough to change molecular speed by a localized mach number? If that makes any sens...

Generally speaking, pretty much all accounts or theories assume either some kind of "thermoacoustic" process or if a condensation/evaporation cycle is admitted the theory is that the condensation medium acts as a kind of regenerator to absorb heat to cool the working fluid, heat being tran...

I searched through the thread as well as the whole message board and it seems this is a fairly recent video that was not previously posted, though watching it, I recognize parts I've seen before, so I believe it is a compilation of previous video highlights, put together to make a new video: https:/...

... 1 Joule = .74 Ft/Lbs - Now traditionally a Joule is not used to quantify a static force, but that's what the internet says the conversion is, and we will need to measure power as a static force for this example. Perhaps this is where this whole example falls apart, ... There is a kind of segue ...

This next part is probably worth a view also https://youtu.be/5T_O6Zt5Xt4?si=rzz70E8TiiXvdR3P The main takeaway being the mass or inertia of the object matters. Another interesting point is the sum of multiple forces (or vectors) either augment or cancel each other. This helps make clear what I was ...