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Additional question: Would the sterling work if it were inversed? That is, machine at the bottom, heat at the bottom, cold on top (assuming that it is suspended).

jimlarsen wrote: A Ringbom design will. But most others need a push to get started.

Doesn't this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Dbc8_aFXw0

violate some "limitations on cool" law, somewhere?

I must take a machinist course.

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