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I am sketching a sterling device that uses a fresnel lens to heat up salt in a thermos like container. With that, it will maybe be able to produce power still at night.

absolutely, using the heat differential for 24 hour output

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5kw might be enought i guess.

@@alexsmith2632 the difference is the thermal efficiency. They can be powered by any heat source, as the video says, such as solar energy. They waste very little energy, compared to a scooter engine, which is optimized for a very different task.

The main problem with sterling engines is the size they have to be to create usable electricity. This one generates a lot of power because it's 4 feet in diameter. If you wanted to completely power a home that is all electric, you would need to have one much larger, or have many mechanically joined by a common shaft.

Imagine placing one on the elephant foot in Chernobyl. It could run for hundreds of years

@@ionutionut2311 The fabled atomic engines from the fallout universe perhaps

@@blackster_Co. atomic stirling engines wouldn't be horrible actually, certainly alot safer than trying some kind of steam reactor car monstrosity. personally i like to think that Fallout cars are EVs with RTG power cores, and the coolant is just to pretect the RTG from the weather like antifreeze. but stirling atomic engine is also a cool idea, though if they used sterling engines they could literally just throw actual trash into a firebox and it would work so like why not do that unless the nuclear lobby cracked down on it or something.

Well, let's see where fusion takes us first since stirling engines are not what I would call powerful. I suppose scale is part of the equation. I can't really figure an engine big enough to produce power on subsantial quantity., but I'll leave that to people smarter than me.

@@blackster_Co. not on their own, but a stirling-electric hybrid could be a very capable vehicle if made well. the idea being that the stirling engine would run constant, as it is hard to throttle them anyway, as a generator which charges a small buffer battery, which then powers electric motors which provide the power you need. fusion was never actually discovered in the fallout universe, all incidents of 'fusion' are actually fission scams by fallouts nuclear monpolies which have a strangle hold on the government. "mass fusion" in fallout 4 for example very clearly has a fission nuclear reactor, and you can read in terminals that the 'personal fusion reactors' they installed in homes were infact nuclear fission reactors aswell, and the 'fusion' cells are almost certainly some kind of atomic battery based on atomic decay, rather than a miniaturized fusion reactor which would be ridiculous.

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I am looking for a Stirling engine powerful enough to run a bicycle uphill(atleast 500 watts) and so far i have been looking for a few hours per day since a month or two and i can confirm, 95% of content are toys and the other 5% are rare stirlings you find that seem to have good power and a reasonable size but there is absolutely no info on how to make them

Stirling info is out there.... Seriously just Google "US patent office Stirling engine" You just have to be willing to build one

​@@victorcastillo3275Sorry but stirling engine have to be big to get serious amount of power. It's not usable in bikes...

@@victorcastillo3275make more pistons more displacers, more powa like a 4 cyl street bike but with 4 motors bigger ones

Probably about 3-5kw

motor beta type. the power piston creates a lot of force at normal atmospheric pressure. short stroke with a large surface area

It depends wich types. More / bigger pieces mooving, more noise ; ) Check fluydine pumps maybee you'll find something more silent... czcams.com/video/ApW211YhkLA/video.html and this one czcams.com/video/xSagoWyfSBA/video.html

Are you thinking of thermo electric generators? They have no moving parts. Stirling have several moving parts and will make noise, bigger ones will make more noise. These are some of the largest stirlings in the world.

@@thermalnerd4945 Do yu think thermo electric generator cheap enough to produce energy for a family ? Ok this stirling is noisy but its still bearable (as i remember when i visit tamera) as it is low frequency

Still way quieter than a weed eater at full throttle