Yes, but then you need to convert the physical energy into electrical which will cause some extra loss.
On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 10:01 PM, Robert Lynn < [email protected]> wrote: > There are at least 5-10 different kinds of old and new stirling engines > available with 30-40% efficiency using 7-800°C input temperatures. They > range from 100W-30kW in capacity. So no problem doing a self-driven system > with LENR COP of 3.2 > Qenergy probably easiest to get a hold of (around 33%, using recently > bankrupt Infinia's 3.5kW output design of which they built a fairly > sizeable stirling solar dish field, so while not advertised they probably > have 10's-100's of engines available now. > Or could go for larger V4-90 of united sun systems (also about 32% > efficient) at about 10-25kW output: > http://www.unitedsunsystems.com/the-v4-90-stirling-engine/ > They probably have several hundred motors sitting around from when they > bought out bankrupted Stirling Energy Systems 2 years ago (they had a 75 > dish field of stirling solar dishes in Maricopa AZ. > Also Mahle Powertrain: > > http://www.mahle-powertrain.com/C1257126002DFC22/vwContentByUNID/D06710E71F58400DC1257A8B0038FDEA/$FILE/MAHLE%20Solar%20Stirling%20Engine%20Development%20(Abs).pdf > 40.5% at 25kW > > On 18 October 2014 13:42, Eric Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I wrote: >> >> In another sense, it would be no more overunity than a fission reactor, >>> since the energy would be coming from the conversion of mass via nuclear >>> reactions. >>> >> >> The obvious objection to the above is that the release of energy always >> involves a mass deficit. The idea was that cold fusion doesn't need to >> involve a violation of CoE, and so a cold fusion device would not really be >> an overunity device. >> >> Eric >> >> >
