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I see, I haven't watched either.

Tom can you unpack that? How would it work without an orifice?

I don't follow baseball but I guess you're from across the pond then?

For starters, I'd like to see a test conducted that proves actual destruction of heat. Not a reduction of, say, internal energy per cubic centimeter, but actual destruction/ conversion of heat energy.

I meant internal pressure and buffer pressure. How do you increase internal pressure without raising buffer pressure too?

An ICE uses a turbo or supercharger to trade some shaft or exhaust power for an even greater gain in specific output with extra fuel.

What would be the equivalent "supercharging" for a Stirling engine? Just a buffer pressure boost? Or something temperature related?

I think what is hard to digest is that the 14.7psi atmospheric return stroke helps a typical gas ECE as much as it does an atmospheric Stirling engine. It's just that the atmospheric pressure adds a significant level of power to the Stirling engine, due to its low output on expansion, whereas the sa...

Here's my contention with the absolute zero thing, the best we can do on earth is exhaust down to 1atm at 300k or so. So chasing "100%" efficiency is like a baseball player chasing a 1.0 batting average, when .300 is considered excellent, and .400 is unheard. Instead, re-framing "100%...

Right.

Good stuff. The fact is that anyone, myself included, trying to beat Carnot is going to have to present rigorous testing and all inclusive data to back up the claim, and that's just to get taken seriously in the first place. Then comes the naysayers and all the rest.

Are you guys working on a molecular reactor, or a piston engine?

The added energy has increased pressure, but temperature? Possibly, but this is apparently not essential. So how, or in what way is the engine "running on" i.e. powered by a temperature difference? I think this is the unicorn forest Matt always talks about. Explain the mechanism where pre...

But Tom, you can't deny that Stirling engines can run on hot and cold temperature diffentials can you?

I'm not sure what really defines either, but by my logic it's a Beta for the following reasons. 1- Both piston and displacer share the same exact bore and axis of travel. 2- Most importantly, the displacer and power piston occupy the same space at various points of the cycle, a feature reserved for ...

If that is truly the case, then the gas laws imply that the temperature of the fluid must also be equal, everywhere. This is another case where it helps to think of energy flow into the engine, rather than heat. Glad when you chime in Mike B. I think this ties in nicely with your thoughts on "...

Over the years, I've often heard of Tesla's ambient heat engine (cold hole) and blown it off as just another one of his wacky schemes (he had many). However, a recent post made me reconsider the possibility.

Which post, Matt?