are there plans out there for a full scale power producing engine?

[shyflowerdancingjesusgirl]

I have been looking for plans for about a 5 HP Stirling that would
burn wood. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks, Danny

[fvanicek]

Yeah, looking for the same. Some very low-tech thing.

[hmfog458]

Me three. Have lots of firewood to burn...Thx David

[Brent]

We sell a book on how Mr. Lockwood built a 5 Hp Stirling engine. It's not quite a plans book but we are hoping to encourage people to give it a try. There are lots of drawings and photos in the book so it should turn this into a rewarding but somewhat large project.


If you aren't a machinist you will want to buy extra copies of the book, give them to some machinists and get them interested. You will need a range of skills and equipment to build a good version of this engine and it's very likely to involve several people.


Brent Van Arsdell

[john.newson]

Crazy? It seems to me that perhaps the most obvious and useful point of Stirling technology is producing domestic electricity: co-generation is a great route to go down. Why on earth is the only commercially available home-generating unit that I can discover a gas-burning planet-polluter? I too want to burn my logs from my own forest land and produce something more than just heat.