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by dolanbaker
Sat Mar 14, 2009 10:40 pm
Forum: Stirling and "Hot Air" Engine Forum
Topic: Large scale Geothermal developement
Replies: 5
Views: 7886

Re: Large scale Geothermal developement

I would imagine that such engines would be extremly large and expensive to build. Presumably you would require multiple engines, one by each hot spring. What sort of water temperatures are you getting, you would probably need to use a low temperature differential design. A small scale system could w...
by dolanbaker
Mon Aug 11, 2008 11:23 am
Forum: Stirling and "Hot Air" Engine Forum
Topic: First engine
Replies: 1
Views: 4632

First engine

Long time lurker, first time poster. I finally got round to trying to build an engine, I started to build using the walking beam plans and ended up with a standard Gamma configuration. After a few hours work and a couple of rebuilds IT WORKS! :grin: It only runs for a few seconds and needs a lot of ...