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WhisperGen is also only available in Europe and costs two orders of magnitude more than this device would last time I checked.

• JoeAltmaier 15y ago
  But this device is vaporware, and its price is a pipe dream.
  • Volodesign 15y ago
    Lets hope not - we did complete a working prototype, proving out the mechanics, linkages, and feasibility. We are pretty close to budget on the full sized model - bearings may take us slightly over the $100 mark.
    • jgrahamc 15y ago
      What would be useful is an apples-to-apples comparison. The WhisperGen is about £3,000 in the UK but that's a complete installable unit in the home that burns natural gas and hooks up to the electricity and water supply. It sounds like your $100 is for just the motion part of the engine (perhaps I'm wrong about that). Do you have a sense for what it would cost me to go from having nothing to a working system in my home generating electricity?
    • JoeAltmaier 15y ago
      That's the device, cool. Then there's the infrastructure as others have commented. Another compelling issue is, will it work uninterrupted for 10 years? Like other household appliances e.g. water heater, furnace, softener, dryer, roof. Building it cheap may preclude building it to last. Thats where Engineering comes into play.
  • Volodesign 15y ago
    Lets hope not - we did complete a working prototype, proving out the mechanics, linkages, and feasibility. We are pretty close to budget on the full sized model - bearings may take us slightly over the $100 mark.