Geothermal and Sterling engine

Posted by Drew Cutter on October 19, 2007, 5:03 pm

Has anyone use the sterling engine and geothermal to produce
electricity ? articles ? who make a good sterling engine ?

Posted by Morris Dovey on October 19, 2007, 5:27 pm

Drew Cutter wrote:
| Has anyone use the sterling engine and geothermal to produce
| electricity ? articles ? who make a good sterling engine ?

Hmm. The heat source isn't relevant to an external combustion engine.
I'm working on a fluidyne (liquid-piston Stirling cycle engine), but
it's not what even I would call good (yet).

I've put up a couple of web pages at the link below.

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Morris Dovey
DeSoto Solar
DeSoto, Iowa USA
http://www.iedu.com/DeSoto/Stirling/

Posted by Drew Cutter on October 19, 2007, 7:58 pm

Morris Dovey wrote:

Posted by Morris Dovey on October 19, 2007, 8:13 pm

Drew Cutter wrote:
| http://www.infiniacorp.com/applications/combined_heat_power.htm

Neat stuff!

...but I bet I'll have 25,000 units installed before they do. :-)

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Morris Dovey
DeSoto Solar
DeSoto, Iowa USA
http://www.iedu.com/DeSoto/

Posted by Eric on October 28, 2007, 4:39 pm

Morris Dovey wrote:

The temperature rise is impressive.
Where did you get the mirror material?
What was the outside ambient and where are you located(roughly)
I may be able to use this type of setup to pre-heat the incoming cold water
going to my water heater.
Thanks
Eric