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kickstarter project to build a $100 - 1kW stirling engine
Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2011 10:04 am
by meow
Hi all,
Just wanted to announce that a kickstarter.com project for building a $100, 1kW stirling engine has been started. Please go through this link for more information:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/672 ... ing-engine
Regards,
Pavan
Re: kickstarter project to build a $100 - 1kW stirling engin
Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2011 10:05 pm
by jimlarsen
That sounds ambitious. Can you buy the raw materials for $100? There are un-powered communities all around the world that would love a cheap motor.
Re: kickstarter project to build a $100 - 1kW stirling engin
Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2011 4:04 pm
by Junkie
They've exceeded their funding target, so we will hopefully be seeing the engine available in the not too distant future
Re: kickstarter project to build a $100 - 1kW stirling engin
Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2011 5:59 pm
by theropod2
Junkie wrote:They've exceeded their funding target, so we will hopefully be seeing the engine available in the not too distant future
Agreed, but I want to see testing to destruction and ability to carry a sustained load, and projected mean time between failure and/or rebuild, BTU input to power, recycling of waste heat, and a lot of details we don't see yet. It's one thing to make something but another to build a long running high quality engine. A 1 KW generator is going to cost more than any $100, and if it's expected to push that 1K for very long it better be robust>.I don't think $100 will buy that. My large frame L/N alternator cost twice this much and more.
I hope all this can be done with $100 for the engine, but I doubt it. IF they could build one that would run for a year and produce 500 watts 24/7 and cost $300 I'd buy 3.