Homemade Three Cylinder Stirling Engine
 

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Re: Homemade Three Cylinder Stirling Engine
 

Pretty neat.

I wish they'd get to where there are large output low temp ones that you could just buy at a reasonable price. I saw a 5 hp one, but it was $9000. I'm amazed there aren't some off the shelf components that could be cobbled into one.

Imagine if you had a biogas generator running one to power a generator

Re: Homemade Three Cylinder Stirling Engine
 

Yeah, something like this:

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Or you could be less green and burn some tires in a pinch...

Re: Homemade Three Cylinder Stirling Engine
 

Didn't the EPA recently have some kind of legislation against these? Pretty much outlawing them or something?