Insulating the "sink", again.
Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2020 10:56 pm
Since my previous experiment involving insulating the cold plate appeared to INCREASE the engines RPM slightly,
https://youtu.be/fFByKkGr5bE
I decided to repeat the experiment with my new LTD Stirling with the Regenerator, and using even more thicker insulation.
Also, due to a comment on one of the science forums, I did not insulate the bottom hot plate, as someone thought this might have increased the heat input which could possibly account for the results. This made some sense, though the bottom plate had been insulated from the start. The speed increase did not occur until the top plate was insulated. Regardless, to help rule that out, the bottom plate was left uninsulated.
https://youtu.be/zEqg1TgLqXI
Again the RPM increased. This time by quite a bit from 270 RPM without insulation to 295 RPM with insulation.
Insulation on the cold plate seems to make these engines run better, almost like putting an ice cube on top.
This engine is running again, on exactly 1 cup of boiled water. Same as before, without insulation.
Yesterday the thread was locked on another Science forum where I tried posting these experimental results. I've been a member of that forum for ten years.
https://www.scienceforums.net/forum/8-c ... l-physics/
They never objected to me talking about and theorizing about these ideas, when they could just dismiss it by throwing equations and formulas at me, but now they object to me posting videos of actual experiments?
https://youtu.be/fFByKkGr5bE
I decided to repeat the experiment with my new LTD Stirling with the Regenerator, and using even more thicker insulation.
Also, due to a comment on one of the science forums, I did not insulate the bottom hot plate, as someone thought this might have increased the heat input which could possibly account for the results. This made some sense, though the bottom plate had been insulated from the start. The speed increase did not occur until the top plate was insulated. Regardless, to help rule that out, the bottom plate was left uninsulated.
https://youtu.be/zEqg1TgLqXI
Again the RPM increased. This time by quite a bit from 270 RPM without insulation to 295 RPM with insulation.
Insulation on the cold plate seems to make these engines run better, almost like putting an ice cube on top.
This engine is running again, on exactly 1 cup of boiled water. Same as before, without insulation.
Yesterday the thread was locked on another Science forum where I tried posting these experimental results. I've been a member of that forum for ten years.
https://www.scienceforums.net/forum/8-c ... l-physics/
They never objected to me talking about and theorizing about these ideas, when they could just dismiss it by throwing equations and formulas at me, but now they object to me posting videos of actual experiments?