Stirling project web page updated

Jul 13, 2007 3 Replies

One more step toward solar-powered shop air conditioning...



I've just updated the web page at

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with a photo of a scaled-up fluidyne built with (mostly) four-inch schedule 40 PVC pipe. This is likely to be a forerunner of the engine that'll be used both for pumping and air-conditioning applications.



It's the last picture on the page.


-- Morris Dovey DeSoto Solar DeSoto, Iowa USA

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Fascinating - thanks for sharing as always! Andy

Fri, Jul 13, 2007, 2:50am (EDT-1) snipped-for-privacy@iedu.com (Morris=A0Dovey) doty sayeth: One more step toward solar-powered shop air conditioning...

Hi ya Morris. I may have posted this link before.

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And, if you don't already have copies, there's a two volume set Seam And Stirling Engines You Can Build. Very interesting. I'm pretty sure they're out of print, but I usualy buy used books anyway, usually much more inexpensive that way.

JOAT I do things I don't know how to do, so that I might learn how to do them. - Picasso

J T wrote: | Fri, Jul 13, 2007, 2:50am (EDT-1) snipped-for-privacy@iedu.com (Morris Dovey) | doty sayeth: | One more step toward solar-powered shop air conditioning... | | Hi ya Morris. I may have posted this link before. |

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- not a new idea. It seems like a perfectly reasonable approach - but has a hidden flaw: sooner or later you'll find yourself ill from the mold that grows in the underground plenum. To get around this minor inconvenience, install a geothermal heat pump.

| And, if you don't already have copies, there's a two volume set | Seam And Stirling Engines You Can Build. Very interesting. I'm | pretty sure they're out of print, but I usualy buy used books | anyway, usually much more inexpensive that way.

I'm tempted to try writing a new one called: "How to build a no-mechanical-parts Stirling engine without a machine shop"...

..if I could just figure it out. :-)

-- Morris Dovey DeSoto Solar DeSoto, Iowa USA

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