After we have a machine. Kirk -----Original Message----- From: vic gabriel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 3:54 PM To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [biofuel] Brayton solar -was Diesel and Alternative power
hi kirk. will you have a website to let us know latest dev. re brayton cycle engine? vic --- kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It is quite obvious that solar power alone is not > bad for general consumers > but will not meet the power demands of industry. > -------------------------- > If the sunlight falling on powerline right-of-ways > was converted to > electricity at an overall efficiency of 3% it would > match the current > capacity of the grid. Solar thermal can store energy > cheaply and with long > life. It makes more sense to do solar thermal in a > distributed manner so > that the bottom end heat is space heating and hot > water. Since this would > destroy the current energy paradigm it wont happen > from the top. > I have been studying low temp thermal engines and > there is a better solution > than Stirling. The Stirling has reciprocating flow > through the regenerator > so there is a problem with that. It seems a Brayton > cycle with regeneration, > which is unidirectional flow so regenerator size is > moot, can achieve 71% > efficiency. That is higher than any other process I > know of. > Page 481 of Thermodynamics by Yunus Cengel and > Michael Boles (McGraw Hill) > confirms this so it is not something I am the first > to notice. A friend and > I hope to have a prototype within a year or so. It > appears 10 suns is > adequate so optics can be inexpensive. > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Get A Free Psychic Reading! Your Online Answer To Life's Important Questions. http://us.click.yahoo.com/Lj3uPC/Me7FAA/CNxFAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> 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/
