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  • it looks like a Sattelite television dish.

  • It's not an external combustion engine if you're not using fuel. Combustion is when any type of fuel combines with oxygen to produce heat. Silly boy!

  • The combustion is taking place on the sun.

  • Last time I checked, combustion was a chemical reaction and not a fusion reaction like in the Sun.

  • Technically you are right, but the concept is still valid in that the heat is being generated outside of the engine even if it is a nuclear reaction rather than a chemical one.

  • macrumton wrote:

    "Technically you are right, but the concept is still valid..."

    I wasn't even arguing about "the concept", I was just pointing out that there is no combustion on the sun, that's all.

  • @macrumpton there is no combustion on the sun idiot

  • @dzgfdg Nuclear combustion is the rapid consumption of stellar material by a thermonuclear fusion front, propagating subsonically (deflagration) or supersonically (detonation), releasing large amounts of energy that are observable as astrophysical flashes peabrain.

  • gee that explains heaps, wow

  • Can you please give more information about this system.

    thank you

  • way of the future... instead of solar farms, if they were just dotted around the city three here three there on the tops of hi rise buildings, that sort of thing, power generation would become decentralised and much easier to get going after a disaster

  • Nice satellite dish!

  • Does it have a sterling engine?

  • i believe so. Stirling engines are external combustion (heat is not generated internally)

  • sterling engines are heat engines and with solar energy there is no combustion, so I don't think you can call that an EC engine.

  • I was referencing the video description:

    >"Mirrors focus onto an external combustion engine to produce electricity."

    An external combustion engine just means heat is generated externally. Yes, combustion is not actually required (as in the case of solar or nuclear power).

    But it's just something that Stirling engines have been called for a long time.

  • I hope not, Stirlings are terrible, noisy, leaky, squeeky, faulty mechanical things. --*shiver*

    Some high gain solid state solar "part" should be there (instead!)...

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