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[[File:OldOlympus_299.jpg|250px|thumb|right|'''Current version of the prototype'''. Assembled version with piston rod guides.  See [http://openstirlingengine.blogspot.com/ blog] for detailed status reports. Having problems with polyethylene bags developing leaks, so not running yet. ]]  
[[File:OldOlympus_299.jpg|250px|thumb|right|'''Current version of the prototype'''. Assembled version with piston rod guides.  See [http://openstirlingengine.blogspot.com/ blog] for detailed status reports. Having problems with polyethylene bags developing leaks, so not running yet. ]]  
 
=Overview=
This is not part of the [[GVCS]]. Elsewhere, Stirling engine enthusiasts are working on this. The Stirling engine is an efficient energy generating technology that has been replicated innumerable times and ways over the past two centuries. The piston-crankshaft type has very little success in the marketplace.  But there are a number of dish-stirling solar power systems online using free piston engines, including the largest solar power installation in the world. The thrust, therefore, of an open sourcing project should be to identify and develop a variation that will result in a marketable design of widespread applicability.
A Stirling engine is an efficient heat engine operating by cyclic compression and expansion of air or other gas, the working fluid, at different temperature levels such that there is a net conversion of heat energy to mechanical work
 
The exact engine type depends entirely on the application.  Free piston engines can only really supply electricity.


==See Also==  
==See Also==  

Revision as of 05:49, 5 September 2011

Alpha prototype under construction. See Open Stirling Engine blog for the current status of the first prototype of the 4 cylinder alpha configuration engine. This is a simplified version of the design as modeled in Google SketchUp
Current version of the prototype. Assembled version with piston rod guides. See blog for detailed status reports. Having problems with polyethylene bags developing leaks, so not running yet.

Overview

A Stirling engine is an efficient heat engine operating by cyclic compression and expansion of air or other gas, the working fluid, at different temperature levels such that there is a net conversion of heat energy to mechanical work

See Also

Stirling Engine with Hydraulic Transmission

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