ok can you build one to pull a car or a byke off the heat of a glow plug from a vw deisal then use a small generator to charge the battery for the glow plug you would have a hot air powered vehical that would make opec leaders crap them selfs and it could use a small starter motor like a gas engine a car or byke with no fuel caust free travel
Correction, 78f2504x4; sterling engines are much more efficient than steam because they use air (some of the more sophisticated ones use helium) instead of water. Water has a very high specific heat which means that it takes a lot of energy to boil it. On the other hand, air (mostly nitrogen) and helium both have much lower specific heats, making it much easier to heat and cool them.
"Water has a very high specific heat which means that it takes a lot of energy to boil it."
The specific heat isn't the problem. It takes 5.4 times more heat to vaporize the same quantity of water than it takes to heat it from just above the freezing point to just below the boiling point.
The point of a well constructed sterling engine is that it approaches the thermodynamic limit(carnot efficiency) of a heat engine operating between those same two heat reservoirs.
The primary reason we don't use stirling engines in our nuclear power plants and so forth is that a turbine of the same power output is much smaller and can be produced much cheaper.
hi just built one of these beam engines myself ,yours is a lot different to mine ,ever thought of lightening the flywheels it should spin up faster and to a higher top speed
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DHAVALKUMARGPATEL 1 year ago
that could be a pretty nice mastarbatouraye even makea sound like it
mmmmmmannnnnnn 2 years ago
Solar powered stirling toy car amirite?
CFrostyTheSnowman 2 years ago
You can just feel it trying to go faster but having some imprecision somewhere is making it wobble. sob
AnomalousAnemone 2 years ago
Is a alpha stirling?
fernandesilyt 2 years ago
Hi i discuss how the sterling engine works on my site so feel free to take a look and tell me if I'm gone wrong :)
magicalmachines 3 years ago
haha you built the cooling ribs on the wrong cylinder XD
clemofish 3 years ago
ok can you build one to pull a car or a byke off the heat of a glow plug from a vw deisal then use a small generator to charge the battery for the glow plug you would have a hot air powered vehical that would make opec leaders crap them selfs and it could use a small starter motor like a gas engine a car or byke with no fuel caust free travel
gratedrake1 3 years ago
very interesting, can u tell me where can I buy one? thanks
gabrymusix 3 years ago
gyroscope. com ther is a few models and a book on how to make that engine
tbmac86 2 years ago
wicked awsome put tha on an rc car lol nice
mower26 3 years ago
add small generator/alternator see what it cranks out
natony0please 3 years ago
stirling job!
pietilidie 3 years ago
It is very nice work ,but did you notice that the velocity isn't constant?
FIGHTERdragonCLF 3 years ago
At the start it sounds like something familiar,, can you geuss?
lost4468 3 years ago
how much torque can it produce?
AeroPolice 4 years ago
enough to make your hands bleed if you hold on to it. Could make a nice scooter engine running at unpredictable speed
sspoke 3 years ago
look out shes going to sling a rod !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol just playing good work
aflacduky 4 years ago
rpm?
RedDevilDriver 4 years ago
Revolutions Per Minute
LukeSkyscraper 4 years ago 2
Kockums actually use them to drive their new submarines!
Cybjon 4 years ago
Correction, 78f2504x4; sterling engines are much more efficient than steam because they use air (some of the more sophisticated ones use helium) instead of water. Water has a very high specific heat which means that it takes a lot of energy to boil it. On the other hand, air (mostly nitrogen) and helium both have much lower specific heats, making it much easier to heat and cool them.
guitarplayerepiSG 4 years ago
"Water has a very high specific heat which means that it takes a lot of energy to boil it."
The specific heat isn't the problem. It takes 5.4 times more heat to vaporize the same quantity of water than it takes to heat it from just above the freezing point to just below the boiling point.
soylentgreenb 4 years ago
im sorry but you are incorect
78f2504x4 4 years ago
what is the point of sterling engines with that same amount of energy you can boil water and prodoce 10 times the power
78f2504x4 4 years ago
The point of a well constructed sterling engine is that it approaches the thermodynamic limit(carnot efficiency) of a heat engine operating between those same two heat reservoirs.
The primary reason we don't use stirling engines in our nuclear power plants and so forth is that a turbine of the same power output is much smaller and can be produced much cheaper.
soylentgreenb 4 years ago
Would you like to sell it? Please contact me.
jamesdjadams 4 years ago
branch the arms out more horizontally it will reduce the effects of gravity through leverage
OrganicDrew 4 years ago
hello could you tell me if it could be purchased some where in hte us
or u can call me at 863-686-2274
thank you
khalidbinnn 4 years ago
umm u should NEVER put your phone number in a public forum!
DNM35 4 years ago
hi just built one of these beam engines myself ,yours is a lot different to mine ,ever thought of lightening the flywheels it should spin up faster and to a higher top speed
kettrinboy 4 years ago
well this one is probably heavy like that to keep momentum so it will run for a long time
therockeronner 4 years ago
hp? watts? etc...
realpeshao 4 years ago
pretty. nice rhythm :)
druidg 4 years ago
see the fire over there well it converts heat into mechanical work
chespo 5 years ago
How does it work?
avenger146 5 years ago
Nice and very funny... :D
Karelke2000 5 years ago
funny? Why becuase it sounds like someone jacking off?
derjew 4 years ago