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Sorry, by back to back, I meant one cylinder and one piston seperating two volumes of gas.

<t>Sorry about the second post.<br/> <br/> First, I'm curious what happens to the heat generated at the hot end <br/> of a Stirling refrigerator? Is it just lost to the environment? If <br/> so, wouldn't it be more efficient to use it to run a second engine? <br/> (It obviously wouldn't recover that...

<t>I've looked around quite a bit before I got here and haven't found <br/> much of an answer. So here goes.<br/> <br/> First, imagine if you took two alpha engines and stuck the two cold <br/> cylinders back to back, and the two hot cyliders back to back. <br/> Ignoring the regenerator, would this ...