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Nice, interesting. Since it's a high-temperature stirling, and I'm guessing you are putting in at least 100w of heat into it, shouldn't the linear alternator produce at least 10 watts of power? Is the low efficiency due to a sub-optimal linear generator? I'm guessing the generator is the two transfo...

Interesting, so you get a powerful compression just before the gas is about to be heated, but then it expands freely because magnet force will be almost nothing after the distance between the two magnets increases a bit. Maybe that's the secret to a really efficient stirling, or at least a high-torq...

Yes, this is EXACTLY what I am thinking, guess that's a much better way to put it.. so is there any reason why this wouldn't work or it would create more inefficiencies than the increase in efficiency it produces? I guess the equivalent for a flywheel engine would be adding a spring on the flywheel ...

Hi, I'm looking at this type of simple stirling engine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-XcDuyV2l4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrLH4AbmDuM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lyfo-N0HRWs http://physicstoys.narod.ru/page/Freepiston/Freepiston3.html Where inertia/bouncing is what moves the displacer,...