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This is different. This person wants a solution that can be built with common materials with fairly standard tools and at small scale, not a scalable commercial
by naasking 2y ago
This is different. This person wants a solution that can be built with common materials with fairly standard tools and at small scale, not a scalable commercial power plant. You can build Stirling engines at home with common materials. We're not comparing 10MW power plants here.
So the question is, for a comparable weight and size as this solution, how difficult would it be to build a solar powered Stirling engine and what would the power output be? I expect the Stirling engine to easily come out on top.
- enva2712 2y agorankine cycle lets you cross vapor dome to access latent heat. enables scaleup
- hurplederp 2y ago[flagged]
- PaulHoule 2y agoSee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_Rankine_cycle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_Rankine_cycle