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<t>Why not forget about the ICE and just go with a Stirling, generator some batteries and electric motor? Keep a charge on the batteries. When they get up to full charge the Stirling cuts out. When the batteries get low the Stirling comes back on. You lose the weight of a starter motor, radiator, ge...

<t>COP of a heat pump can be 5 to 1. That means that it uses 100 watts to run the compressor but it produces 500 watts because it is extracting energy/heat from a fluid. In the case of a an air conditioner it is rejecting heat into the air. The condenser temp maybe 180F and the ambient may be 80F. A...

<t>Am I missing something? It occurs to me that if heat from a condenser<br/> were dissipated into a Stirling engine a couple of good things would<br/> happen. The refrigerant would give up its heat faster. Less<br/> refrigerant would be needed and a smaller compressor would be required<br/> for the...