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Heteluchtmachines

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.

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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5 Responses to “Heteluchtmachines”

1. gregb Says:
   
   March 5th, 2008 at 3:20 pm

   Beautiful workmanship. There are even slower stirling engines sensitive enough to run on the heat from a light bulb’s beam. See the solar rocker movie mid-way down the page

   http://www.genuineideas.com/HallofInventions/SolarFerrisWheel/solarferriswheel.html

2. Noname Says:
   
   March 6th, 2008 at 3:59 am

   So, it’s not “sterling”! Stirling!

3. William Says:
   
   March 10th, 2008 at 12:46 pm

   Yikes. I should know better, I’ve built some models. Correction made

4. Remco Says:
   
   April 7th, 2008 at 11:16 am

   Would it kill you to place a link to the guys site?

5. William Says:
   
   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.

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