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Thermoacoustic Stirling Generator Converts to Energy with No Moving Parts
- ggm 3y ago> Efficient: Offers very high thermal-to-electrical efficiency compared to other heat engines It's 28% heading to 34% which would begin to approach other steam (mechanical) engine efficiency. So, this is contextual not absolute, in terms of "its efficient" I think this is an amazing engine, but I bet there are a tonne of corner cases around it. Massive amounts of high-frequency vibration, under continuous compression to force this to be "stationary" inside a magnetic inductive system. It sounds (hah!) like it might be efficient, and even capable of being "silent" but I begin to suspect that HF is going to be unavoidably imparted to the hull and the surrounding waterscape.