Stirling Engines

[paulius360]

i was trying to understand how it works like two days.... and finaly this explanation was werry good

[troppls]

Geeses, incredible.

[Digadogup]

great video :D

[miguelmouta]

Im a doc, I save lives. Patients love-me. But I know, life is a fake. God  really play games, and he is bad, oh I am sure.

[ArduinoAlan]

How far off in rotation are the piston and displacer? 90°?

[cxrodformrx]

cool vid

[RWINSOLO]

Interesting tutorial, inspiring me, tq very much

[Burrellfan1]

I feel like I was Mr. Wizard's World.

[Matsyendro]

Wonderful explanation! I also love the dry kind of humour you guys have. Tea cup propulsion ... very British!

[iarodify]

You're a wonderfull human being.

[Bobiloco]

Great video, loved the ending

[kayealfresco]

I mean minority group in the sense of press and internet, obviously not in society en masse! x

[kayealfresco]

You guys remind me of Burt Munro!!!! :D The Worlds Fastest indian is one of my favourite films.I hope you don't mind but I'll be playing your BBC interview at my uni on a presentation about western society and equality of involvement in the modern media.Your comment about 'youtube' being for everyone shows how refreshing unlimited broadcasting is and how outdated the present day money/male/youth dominated press is.Hopefully your success will inspire other minority groups to come to YouTube! x

[slainwolf180]

Probably underused today, with a bigger heat sink it might be made into a useful solar/geothermal engine

[MusicManInSC]

Thanks, St. Peter! I learned something new today! Of course, being a musician I really was more into the banjo tune at the end......

Thom, Musician In South Carolina, USA

[deadlychickenxop]

much more efficient than the internal combustion engine, but there's not as much money to be made as you don't have to fill it with petrol so no one has bothered developing it :(

great concept tho ;)

[vistatrista7]

That was a very cool and cute video! I loved how it was both educational and amusing. The way you moved that little video box around of yourself and then the little musical solo at the end was made me laugh quite a bit.

Very good video as always! I look forward to your next one. :)

[NinaHoney3]

You a legend <3 Love you!

[Geistenzelda]

Wauw, that was really interesting.

Thank you for an interesting lesson Peter and cousin!

[TheSweetBean]

this is great! I know about the warm air warming the cool air up and vice versa, but I've never seen it displayed like this.

very cool, thanks for sharing!!

[bikaren1980]

The Stirling Engine is so cool. It is actually a heat pump - it moves heat from the warm side to the cool side and does work in the process.

[iVictoriaProductions]

Very interesting! Thanks Peter! Great video :) Haha I really enjoyed the outro!

[ytmonline]

Obviously a piece of precision engineering. I am always amazed at how close tolerances can be on something made out of metal.

[ashjonesnwpb]

great video

[downhill240]

Very interesting concept. Thanks for sharing, peter and Cousin!

[35THIRTYFIVE]

Could be converted to a fan for cooling in hot 3rd world countries, or anywhere with a warm climate

cool

love the ending

35

[GlenStorageCenter]

if you build a motorcycle it would be to fast to control

the speed would tare the bike apart !

and motorcycle are fast enough why build something that would easy kill you !

[GlenStorageCenter]

you know that good idear if want get power from the groung if put the engine over a

steam vents in ground you get all power you want

it kind of reminds me of an oil plouse engine. the energie conductor build up the

energie then release it thowe fild condence which build up the plouse

and the engergie is feed back but it take eletricity to power it

a piston engine has its limted

[SeniorPop1]

I'm an electrical type, so your Sterling engine is somewhat mysterious to me. Can it handle a load? Anyway, congratulations on constructing it. It looks very precision-like built.

George, in the USA.

[Otacon144]

How funny! I was just looking at a great little website that explains a bunch of different engines like this!

It really is a pretty brilliant idea that runs the mechanism - maybe not the most practical at the moment, but then, we find ways to improve things all the time, don't we?

Also, I had to laugh when Brian took out the banjo - I play it too. :)

[oneiblind30]

That was cool never seen one before.

[ysyp2]

i live above a motorcyle shop so i am developing an interest...

[Jaytheozzi]

my tafe teacher builds them him self. you often see him working on a machining after class turning parts or milling the flywheels ect.

very interesting!

[russtex]

Very interesting Peter!

[Argentium009]

Found some on eBay, running around $130, too expensive but there were some on auction so I threw a 99 cent bid in, who knows? :)

[specallez]

@Argentium009 You can always make a coke can engine, if you don't have the cash for a fancy LTD :D

[Argentium009]

@specallez Yeah but it wouldn't have that steampunk look that I'm currently working with in my art. A friend got me interested in producing steampunk art after putting up a video of a showing at a local gallery and since that I've been working on a series of pieces. Maybe I'll win the auction. :) Doubt it but who knows?

[Argentium009]

Friggin' awesome! I gotta get me one of those and build some kind of light source thingy under it to keep it going and work it into an art project! :) Can you actually get those anywhere? I'm guessing that was an example model of a Stirling engine and not a fully functional one you'd use in a vehicle. :)

[TigerlilyCO2011]

You are looking well, Grandad!

[fehquig]

Hot... and cool.

[AudioVideoClips]

Very interesting. Thanks for sharing this.

[tenagliac]

A way of extracting geothermal energy. Cool..

[jordanthecat]

This is fascinating- It's my first introduction to a Stirling Engine. ("first introduction" - is that a redundant phrase?)

[rollsroyce59]

Peter,

Thanks for the information on the Sterling engine.

DO YOU THINK: That a Sterling engine could get enough heat from what goes up the stovepipe to drive a battery charger?

( Every bit of electric power that can be stored saves burning more oil or gas.)

You have a ton of people that read your Youtube posts.

Is there a reader that make this work?

[Amiduffer]

Your cousin is cool.

[onomatopoeia162003]

interesting. keep it up!

[FunnyHaHa312]

Pretty neat!

[Maryangel24]

aww, what a nice video, peter. and a good explanation at that :D

[HappyComfort]

cool! Thanks for the description! It was very nice of your cousin & friend also. And I thought it was rather humorous to see you bobbing around at the top of the screen lol!!! But I am from the US and wanted to ask, what is "waffle" ? I thought it was something you at rather like a pancake. (chuckle) :-)

[AhimsaCompassion]

Nice Stirling engine , demonstration and explanation! Banjo was good, too. ;)

A sincere thank you for sharing this.

Peace

[k6tpl]

It is very nice to have family that speaks to you Peter! When ever I call people in my family they always start the conversation by asking me who give me their number!

[Noobsquadz]

When you mentioned you worked on motorcycles and that you were going to give us an example of one working, I thought we were going to see you don your black leather for a scramble round the roundabout. Never too old!

[Truedantalion]

Ohh, the video's thumbnail misled me - I actually thought you had followed my lead in the Growing a Beard business :-)!

Well, once I got my confusion sorted out, I found mysself baffled by the explanation of this motor's principle. I understood it all, but then see such a cycle in motion, and by that speed that a simple cup of warm tea already brings to the matter ... Well, all scientific coolness left me, and I was just sitting there, amazed as achild, and watched the swirl of the wheel :-)

[ollytennant]

That's so awesome. I want to try that with my next cup of tea haha =D

Thank you for sharing this =)

xxx

[NinaHoney3]

Many thanks for this! Very informative as always! Your biggest admirer <3

[TheOldclaypot]

Allways wondered how those engines worked. Curious little things to see at work, especially that cup of tea powered one. Would be a laugh to try and make one which charges a mobile phone or something like that. But I'm no engineer, sadly.

[Paralyzer]

swedish submarines use the Stirling engine. because it's so quiet 

[selenafua]

Eh, sometimes if your really compassionate about it, you might know more about something then someone who went to school but is not passionate about it.

[moooocat]

nice outro

[josh01562]

Wow! i had never heard of it before, thanks!

[oliviab93634]

This is really interesting! Thanks.

[CarlosMerighe]

Incrivel!

[GuitarHeroTester]

love your videos man!