From: Kevin O'Malley
All of them would need to convert heat to electricity. That means a
Stirling engine, unless you believe the guys at Deuo Dynamics who have a
direct thermoelectric conversion in their LENR diode.
Which Stirling Engine is the best?
Cyclone Power? They have Dr. Kim
Infinia? bankrupt, sold Stirling stuff to qenergy.com
Dean Kamen? The Segway inventor went silent on his Stirling patent
www.stirlingengine.com/kamen/dean_kamen_patent.html
Any others worth looking at? When LENR hits big, stirling cycle engines
will have their day in the sun.
We had a poster here last year who was an expert on Stirling engines, and
who was of the strong opinion that this design was not close to
commercialization, even now. Every problem solved seemed to create another
one. This was epitomized by the failure of SES and others going back to
William Beale.
There is a solid thirty year history of not just failure, but dramatic
crash-and-burn failure after massive financing.
I just finished reading the Beale story.
http://www.amazon.com/Next-Great-Thing-Shelton-Mark/dp/0393334031
It is forty years old but could have been written yesterday.
Nevertheless - the only think keeping this engine off the market is probably
another $2-5 billion in engineering :-)
