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.
translated home page from dutch
Wikipedia entry for “hot air” or sterling engines
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March 6th, 2008 at 3:59 am
So, it’s not “sterling”! Stirling!
March 10th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
Yikes. I should know better, I’ve built some models. Correction made
April 7th, 2008 at 11:16 am
Would it kill you to place a link to the guys site?
April 7th, 2008 at 11:39 am
I did post a link to his home page via a dutch to engiish translator. See the “translated home page from dutch” link in the post.