Real Stirling Engines

I wish you well with your search for the Merc industrial diesel. I have often thought that those refrigeration systems were just waiting to be re-assigned. A friend in Switzerland has a 3 cubic metre (795 US gallon) hot water storage tank, heavily insulated and built into a special room. It had several draw off […]

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Tesla Turbine Meets Flash Steam

[q]Recent postings have sparked my interest in the Tesla Turbine as a robust, easily constructed method of getting pure rotary motion from a hot gas stream, whether the exhaust of an IC engine, or a gas burner fed from a wood- gasifier. A high speed brushless dc generator would allow electrical power to be extracted […]

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Where to Get a Small Steam (Tesla) Turbine?

[q]Does anybody know where I can get a small (1-2kw) steam turbine? Could an automobile turbine (aka turbocharger) be modified to operate a generator to produce electricity? [/q] [a] You may wish to check into Tesla steam turbine technology. They are easy to make and cheap. A little inefficient, but not too bad if you […]

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