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by Tom Booth
Sat Nov 23, 2024 6:58 am
Forum: Stirling and "Hot Air" Engine Forum
Topic: Air Lift Turbine Generator
Replies: 44
Views: 1269

Re: Air Lift Turbine Generator

According to statements made by the inventor, Mark Maynard, (in a video attached to an old version of tbe website) there were "laboratory size" experimental working models by means of which the technology was worked out before moving up to the larger demonstration models. So, VincentG,... ...
by Tom Booth
Fri Nov 22, 2024 2:09 pm
Forum: Stirling and "Hot Air" Engine Forum
Topic: Air Lift Turbine Generator
Replies: 44
Views: 1269

Re: Air Lift Turbine Generator

Well this would be pretty easy to build at smaller scale. If nothing else it would make a cool piece of functional art. That's more or less how I feel about it. After all, I'm sure millions have been made from the "dippy bird" as a novelty item. A desktop "perpetual" lava lamp t...
by Tom Booth
Fri Nov 22, 2024 12:58 pm
Forum: Stirling and "Hot Air" Engine Forum
Topic: Air Lift Turbine Generator
Replies: 44
Views: 1269

Re: Air Lift Turbine Generator

I just got off the phone with the president of the company. The demonstration tower cost a little over 2 Million to construct, including all materials, labor, payroll etc. He said the power output was over 10kw using 12" pipes. A successful "proof of concept" but at $200,000 or so per...
by Tom Booth
Fri Nov 22, 2024 12:29 pm
Forum: Stirling and "Hot Air" Engine Forum
Topic: Domain expiration
Replies: 60
Views: 2457

Re: Domain expiration

. Sounds like you would be providing a dark web for them to secretly communicate with each other, while giving every new comer a peek to see if they would be interested. Good luck with that. I hope it doesn't fill your bandwidth with spam. . No, it's an open public forum, freely readable by everyon...
by Tom Booth
Fri Nov 22, 2024 4:50 am
Forum: Stirling and "Hot Air" Engine Forum
Topic: Air Lift Turbine Generator
Replies: 44
Views: 1269

Re: Air Lift Turbine Generator

More details about the working principle: Edited for length and relevance: focus on the technology (without the global warming/climate change hype) Generating Renewable Energy Out of Thin Air: Jan 15, 2022 (....) Understanding this new renewable energy technology requires a brief history lesson feat...
by Tom Booth
Fri Nov 22, 2024 3:49 am
Forum: Stirling and "Hot Air" Engine Forum
Topic: Forces of attraction and repulsion of gas molecules in a Stirling engine.
Replies: 129
Views: 13534

Re: Forces of attraction and repulsion of gas molecules in a Stirling engine.

Fool wrote: Thu Nov 21, 2024 9:09 am .

If course not.... As least my words are consistent...

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LOL...
by Tom Booth
Fri Nov 22, 2024 3:25 am
Forum: Stirling and "Hot Air" Engine Forum
Topic: Air Lift Turbine Generator
Replies: 44
Views: 1269

Re: Air Lift Turbine Generator

It's basically a giant "drinking bird" in principle. A combination of a heat pump and heat engine that generates power from the surrounding ambient heat. "Fool" can't understand it any more than he can understand the dippy bird, heat pumps, heat engines or anything else that requ...
by Tom Booth
Fri Nov 22, 2024 3:13 am
Forum: Stirling and "Hot Air" Engine Forum
Topic: Air Lift Turbine Generator
Replies: 44
Views: 1269

Re: Air Lift Turbine Generator

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by Tom Booth
Fri Nov 22, 2024 2:42 am
Forum: Stirling and "Hot Air" Engine Forum
Topic: Air Lift Turbine Generator
Replies: 44
Views: 1269

Re: Air Lift Turbine Generator

Fool wrote: Fri Nov 22, 2024 12:59 am .

The more Tom promotes this, the more I see it is just a scam.

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The sad truth is, though a perfectly sound invention in principle with a working prototype, the chances of success are minimized do to the influence of people like you.
by Tom Booth
Fri Nov 22, 2024 2:29 am
Forum: Stirling and "Hot Air" Engine Forum
Topic: Air Lift Turbine Generator
Replies: 44
Views: 1269

Re: Air Lift Turbine Generator

. The more Tom promotes this, the more I see it is just a scam. Tom, invest heavily into that system. You will learn your lesson from their failures. I wait for a working system. . I might pay them a visit. It's not that far from here where I live. Just across the state line, within easy driving di...
by Tom Booth
Fri Nov 22, 2024 2:21 am
Forum: Stirling and "Hot Air" Engine Forum
Topic: Air Lift Turbine Generator
Replies: 44
Views: 1269

Re: Air Lift Turbine Generator

. Fool doesn't seem to understand that cooling air as it is being compressed makes the compression much easier. Tom doesn't realize that to cool a gas while it's being compressed requires heat rejection to something colder. . Fool also doesn't realize temporarily "moving" heat with a heat...
by Tom Booth
Fri Nov 22, 2024 1:54 am
Forum: Stirling and "Hot Air" Engine Forum
Topic: Stirling Engine & Heat Pump
Replies: 169
Views: 20621

Re: Stirling Engine & Heat Pump

. I'm.still waiting. The Drinking bird, is a great example of how heat engines require cooling and heating. Temperature difference. . LOL... Right. Sitting there running in a completely homogenous ambient environment. Simultaneously "heated" and "cooled" by energy derived from t...
by Tom Booth
Thu Nov 21, 2024 7:46 pm
Forum: Stirling and "Hot Air" Engine Forum
Topic: Air Lift Turbine Generator
Replies: 44
Views: 1269

Re: Air Lift Turbine Generator

According to the Wikipedia article ORC is used in connection with the heat from a compressors intercoolers. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_Rankine_cycle See above under "waste heat recovery". A video on the function of an intercooler. https://youtu.be/0B8K1ZCJl9A I have one of the...
by Tom Booth
Thu Nov 21, 2024 7:19 pm
Forum: Stirling and "Hot Air" Engine Forum
Topic: Air Lift Turbine Generator
Replies: 44
Views: 1269

Re: Air Lift Turbine Generator

An older version of the website depicts something else going on with the gas that reaches the top of the tower: Compress_20241121_211226_6711.jpg https://web.archive.org/web/20210116033033/https://flooidpower.com/how-it-works/ Dead link found on this skeptic page: https://www.2greenenergy.com/2019/0...
by Tom Booth
Thu Nov 21, 2024 6:22 pm
Forum: Stirling and "Hot Air" Engine Forum
Topic: Air Lift Turbine Generator
Replies: 44
Views: 1269

Re: Air Lift Turbine Generator

Fool doesn't seem to understand that cooling air as it is being compressed makes the compression much easier. By liquid cooling the compressor the heat of compression is transfered to the fluid. Then when the air is decompressed, after being pre-coolied you have very cold air being injected into the...