Keith,
We started with solar powered air conditioning (cooling) by using thermal solar panels and a cooling unit with a modified Electrolux - Munters technology. Free energy at low cost and high capacity potentials. I have looked for a long time for somebody that would pick up on this technology that is used on larger refrigeration ships, but needed adaption for smaller applications. I am still quite enthusiastic about it, http://members.aon.at/solarfrost/main.html Then somebody said something about Stirling for that type of application and I contested that we had a cost effective Stirling technology for it. So what happens? We are now so fixated with what we can do with Stirling, that the original thread is totally lost. I think that the WhisperGen Personal Power Station is very interesting and like to know more about it. It does not have anything to do with what we discussed, but very interesting. I will follow it up, but the electricity output is only 750W as a by product of heating. To be useful, it probably need to be combined with storage/batteries and could be very good as a component in a PV cell system. As a heating system it is also interesting due to the high efficiency, but 5 kW is very low capacity for this purpose. Pulsonex pulsating system has around the same efficiency but 25 kW. The advantage of both have the biodiesel capability. Then we have links to a heat recuperator, again not relevant to what we discussed, but interesting. Like to see more data and performance numbers. Also want to compare it to other systems. I am still left with unchanged enthusiasm for the modified Electrolux - Munters technology and the air conditioning (cooling) application, but are grateful for the other ideas. Will discuss them in separate threads, after looking closer. Hakan At 09:12 PM 2/28/2003 +0900, you wrote: >http://www.whispergen.com/ > >The revolutionary WhisperGen Personal Power Station >is a micro combined heat/power generator >based on an external combustion (Stirling) engine. >It is the result of 8 years of design and development work by Whisper >Tech Ltd.. >Quiet clean burning and extremely efficient,. >the WhisperGen is able to use a multitude of liquid or gaseous fuels >and will change the way in which electricity is produced >and distributed throughout the world. > > > >Mark > > > >Check out this link they have 5hp stirling motors, I personally > >don't know a thing about Stirling motors but all the hubub about > >stirling motors sparked my interest. I ran across this link from > >someones post in here. They are in Japan and I could not find a > >price anywhere on the web site. Hope this is of help to ya. > > > >http://www.stirling-tech.com/index.htm > > > >--- In biofuel@yahoogroups.com, Mark Foltarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hey, > > > > > > I am just waiting to see any "real" stirling motors that can do > >any > > > appreciable amount of work and are available for purchase. Little > >kits that > > > power fans from hot cups of coffee are great for the Captain > >Kangaroo bunch. > > > But are there any real motors on the order of 5 bhp that arer > >available for > > > purchase? > > > > > > Sun Power in Athens, Oh ( > >http://sunpower.com/enthusiast/index.html) is > > > supposed be to be some kind of Sterling mecca, but they are > >probably so tired > > > of being inundated with basement tinkerers like myself, that they > >don't want to > > > share much information. Also I believe their specialty now is > >the "CryoCooler" > > > - a novel artifact of the sterling motor - it becomes a > >refrigirator if you run > > > power in to it. Reverse the power input and the same end turns > >very hot. So the > > > stirling motor can function as a heat pump. Todd have you ever > >chatted with > > > those folks there at SunPower? > > > > > > There is a group on Yahoo called SESUSA (http://www.sesusa.org) . > >Good info > > > there but I have not seen any "real" workable engines that would > >be considered > > > a powerplant that is available to a regular joe. Still pretty > >exotic yet. > > > > > > Yours, > > > > > > Mark Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
