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Heteluchtmachines

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

“Jos the finch” in The Netherlands makes extraordinary stirling engines of striking designs. These are only a couple of his amazing machines. It’s shocking that he gets such high efficiency from only a couple of tea candles.


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A couple of his videos from youtube:



see more videos here

translated home page from dutch

Wikipedia entry for “hot air” or sterling engines

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