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<t>Most Stirling engines operate very much like Steam engines. They have a very flat power <br/> curve over a significant range of speed. Load them down, speed goes down but torque goes <br/> up and power is almost the same except for the heat transfer losses due to reduced thermal <br/> conduction....

<r>Jason,<br/> <br/> Go to <URL url="http://www.ent.ohiou.edu/~urieli/Stirling/engines/beta.html"><LINK_TEXT text="http://www.ent.ohiou.edu/~urieli/stirli ... /beta.html">http://www.ent.ohiou.edu/~urieli/Stirling/engines/beta.html</LINK_TEXT></URL> and do a little study <br/> about the different typ...

Sorry,

I misread your message about driving the generator so forget my last comment about driving
the generator...
However they're still very large and practical Stirling engines today (and likely for the
foreseeable future) are in the Kilowatt range.

Cate

<t>Jason,<br/> <br/> You do indeed need to be a great deal more specific. But the ones used in dams are <br/> usually large. Very large. In the MegaWatt range or much higher. At that size theoretical <br/> Stirling engines do not compete with steam turbines, which can be run on biomass, even <br/> s...

<t>With Regards to Releasing the Sunpower RHEP Engine Drawings and details;<br/> <br/> In forming STI part of my deal with Sunpower was one of the original RHEP engines that <br/> Sunpower built for another project and shares to them in my company.<br/> A couple of years later William Beale announce...

<t>With Regards to Releasing the Sunpower RHEP Engine Drawings and details;<br/> <br/> In forming STI part of my deal with Sunpower was one of the original RHEP engines that <br/> Sunpower built for another project and shares to them in my company.<br/> A couple of years later William Beale announce...

<t>I want to point out that the Engine Sunpower<br/> designed for the USAID project in Bangladesh was not the ST-5. True, it was an earlier <br/> prototype but I branched off from Sunpower and the ST-5 is entirely<br/> Stirling Technology's design, quite different in many ways from the Sunpower prot...

<t>I want to point out that the Engine Sunpower<br/> designed for the USAID project in Bangladesh was not the ST-5. True, it was an earlier <br/> prototype but I branched off from Sunpower and the ST-5 is entirely<br/> Stirling Technology's design, quite different in many ways from the Sunpower prot...

<t>All I care about is setting the record straight.<br/> What's past is past except his book is being associated with the ST-5 and the ST-5 is <br/> being seen as a failure sometimes due to that.<br/> <br/> It's hard to get out there and convince investors and others that we really do have a <br/> v...

<t>All I care about is setting the record straight.<br/> What's past is past except his book is being associated with the ST-5 and the ST-5 is <br/> being seen as a failure sometimes due to that.<br/> <br/> It's hard to get out there and convince investors and others that we really do have a <br/> v...