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<t>Ok, you have the heat, but can you take the heat?<br/> <br/> Lets say that you do have enough BTUs per hour to make a Stirling generator viable. Can you afford to shutdown your glass blowing operations to retrofit? <br/> <br/> <br/> How about the possible impact of future maintenance on the Stirl...

<r>Hello, <br/> <br/> It would be necessary to crunch some numbers in order to give you even a WAG (wild ass guess) at to the efficiency of such a system, but here are some of the major factors that would have to be considered. <br/> <br/> 1. What would the surplus electricity be used for? <br/> <br...

<r>Hello,<br/> <br/> It would be necessary to crunch some numbers in order to give you even a WAG (wild ass guess) at to the efficiency of such a system, but here are some of the major factors that would have to be considered.<br/> <br/> <br/> 1. What would the surplus electricity be used for?<br/> ...

<r>Hello,<br/> <br/> The following site contains valuable information covering animal manure and the use of methane gas. Since burning methane gas will produce much higher temperatures than simply taking the heat from the compost, it would be more feasible to burn the gas to heat a Stirling engine t...

<r>Hello,<br/> <br/> Once when I was in high school I built a 6ft dia. dish out of cardboard taken from refrigerator boxes. These boxes are really big, and the cardboard is thicker and heaver than boxes from the supermarket.<br/> <br/> I filled in the areas between the parabolic ribs with poster boa...

<r>Hello,<br/> <br/> Once when I was in high school I built a 6ft dia. dish out of cardboard taken from refrigerator boxes. These boxes are really big, and the cardboard is thicker and heaver than boxes from the supermarket.<br/> <br/> I filled in the areas between the parabolic ribs with poster boa...

<t>Hello,<br/> <br/> The smoke you see rising out of your neighbors chimney.....that smoke is being carried upwards by heat from the fireplace. In this example the waste heat is the heat generated by the fire that does not help heat the house. It just goes up the chimney with the smoke and floats aw...

<t>Hello,<br/> <br/> I just purchased and read the book "Around the World by Stirling Engine" by Brent H. Van Arsdell. Which is available here on the Stirling site. One of the points the author made was that a great deal of time and energy (in the form of human mental/physical effort) has been direc...