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WhisperGen Stirling Engine... I want one...

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dbvandy:
I was thumbing through the TV today and saw a show about a new generator run by a Stirling engine...  why don't we all have these???

http://www.whispergen.com/content/library/whispergen.html    :coffee:

Doug

Blade:
Those are cool generators. My wife and I raise miniature horses and when I saw those I thought it would be cool to build a way to produce methane gas from the manure to run one of those generators with.

mike os:
been round for a while now... maybe 10 years,  damn expensive bit of kit from what I recall.... thought about one myself

andyf:
Here in the UK, a gas central heating boiler (furnace in the US) has recently been advertised as containing a Stirling to generate electricity.

But it strikes me that buying gas at retail prices to generate electricity on a small scale might well work out more expensive than buying electricity from a utility company. And no doubt the capital cost is pretty high.

Andy

woodguy:
I know several people who have fitted these to their boats, and all have had problems. During the winter, when the heat produced can be put to good use, they are great. In the heat of the summer - not so much.

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