Reply To: Why build a Stirling Engine?

[Ian S CParticipant @iansc]

Hi Kwil,your welcome on the other site,even if you don’t like them you may have some ideas that we don’t(we sort of wander about in the dark a bit,with a few glimmers here and there)Here in Christchurch New Zealand the local university engineering school has turned out a number of engineers in hot air engineering.A local firm is Whispertec founded by some of these chaps.The whispergen is their product,a small pressurised Stirling engine producing about 1Kw of electrical power plus hot water,use-home power supply,or on a boat.This background causes one to be a little curious about this seemingly simple machine.I want wheels going round,and I don’t intend to build boilers(have done little pot boilers).I do have an IC motor slowly evolving.There is one of the local sterling engine men who has rebuilt a cryo type engine,its used for creating frozen gasses,think it came from the university.Ian S C