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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Wed May 14 20:31:59 2008, in response to Re: Who do YOU Endorse for the Presidency?, posted by JournalSquare-K-Car on Wed May 14 19:49:17 2008. Lost elections aside, the stirling engine has been a still birth as far as automotive possibilities go ... a local company up here, "Mechanical Technologies Inc" (MTI) has been beating that horse for decades. Stirling engines are EXTERNAL combustion engines and do take a while to get up to operating temperature. The output of one is reciprocating force, same as a steam engine. If you're interested in knowing more about them, and why NASA and DOE gave up on it, google MTI+STIRLING+ENGINE and you can view the reports.Research continues, works very well with solar furnaces in power generation, but in a car? Nope. Might as well burn coal and have a fireman with a shovel in your passenger seat. :) |
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