Close up of stirling engine

Here one sees the closer mechanical power connections of the Pete's latest Stirling engine

Stirling Engine generating power / electricity

Here Pete's Stirling Engine generating an electrical current. Magnets are placed along the edge of the spinning disk. Placed fairly close to that disk is another disk holding 12 coils, all linked. When the Stirling engine is running, it spins the disk, which allows the magnets to interact with the coils, hence producing a current of power. As this prototype is optimised and evolved, it will be capable of producing a stronger current... a god level would be when it is able to charge cellphone. South Africa live below the convenience line, but cellphone penetration is extremely high. And mobile phones can liberate people due to the power of multimedia communications for one's business and personal life.

Generating power from a Stirling engine

Pete upgraded his latest Stirling engine to generate power. Not much watts at this point, but enough to prove the concept. magnets attached to the spinning wheel, facing 12 coils, thus inducing the current. Enough to drive an LED quite brightly.

Faster and faster: Stirling engine optimisation

Pete has optimised the latest Stirling engine to run at an even higher rate. Later today I'll post some videos and photos of this and how he achieved it. Exciting stuff!

Another sterling engine: this one rocks!

While optimising the Stirling engine shown below, Pete decided to complete another one he has built. Here are some videos of this speeding baby in action.
It's heat source is a simple flame not much larger than that of a candle. A great way to charge a cellphone, as one of its many possible applications.


Here we get it started by adding the flame to the hot side of the engine, waiting a tad for pressure to accumulate, and then giving it a gently spin to get the motion process going.



Here one sees it running at high speed. One has to actually stop it some some point in fear that it would cause mechanical damage. These are all issues to be resolved while evolving such a piece of machinery.



A video clip of the Stirling engine running at high speed, with some close-ups showing some of the mechanics involved

Some photos of the Stirling Engine

2010 Soccer World Cup: start building Stirling engines now!!!

To channel the Sun's energy to power the infrastructure during the 2010 world cup soccer event. In the Karoo, Northern Cape, there is mega hectares of desert-like area with immense energy from the sun per square metre than most places around the world.

Build solar Stirling engine farms much like here on Youtube.

It's worth the investment because subsequent to the world cup, South Africa would be able to benefit from clean, abundant energy. We could even then pump some of it up into Africa to become and even bigger energy supplier to our neighbours, Zimbabwe included. We would hope that by that time Zim has settled down back into the rich prosperous country that it actually is, if it weren't for Robert Mugabe's self-centred rampage.

See below (previous post) for video clips of my friend Pete getting into building one.