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Whispergen wobble yoke
Hack the http://www.homeenergy.se, http://www.helixwind.com WindEnergy patents - it the Godly righteous thing to do. WhisperGen™ is probably the only commercial StirlingEngine available to the public and only in New Zealand - http://www.volpower.co.nz/wawcs0131756/ln-whispergen.html. A patented mechanism, the Wobble Yoke, transfers the vertical motion of the pistons to the rotary motion of the alternator. The DC WhisperGen works well in conjunction with other forms of electrical or heating generation including Solar Energy. See HackPatents as why we can morally and ethically reverse engineer the design and build our engines in South - Africa --SolarLinks -- via a FrontingCompany.
 * http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Z2bjsKyaYw&feature=player_embedded
 * http://www.whispergen.com/main/technology/ 1Kw electric output, $22000 USD retail 
 * http://www.sunpower.com Single piston Striling with 97 patents
 * http://www.whispergen.com/content/library/Don_Clucas_Stirling_engine_generator_development.pdf
 * http://www.qalovis.com 38kw electric output Stirling engine commercially available in Germany

The Whispergen wobble yoke translates the vertical motion of the pistons to rotary motion and can used to construct a steam engine as well, it is far superior to a steam engine's linear-to-rotary motion design and can be scaled to any size. It doesn't need be oiled surpassing any known linear-to-rotary motion designs at present. Any size condensing unit of the StirlingEngine can be made, this is a separate simpler design issue from the wobble yoke assembly, allowing the 1kw design to scale upto 35kwatt. This condensing unit consists of thousands of small pipes which can be hacked from larger Stirling designs such as the http://www.qalovis.com. To escape patent lawyers, the subunits of the Whispergen can be manufactured a different premises before final assembly. South-Africa's banal legal regime and constitutional protections makes it very easy to ignore patent laws.

http://www.alternative-energy-guide.com/articles/stirling/whispergen_stirling_engine.htm One of the major drawbacks of Stirling Engines has been the limited life-span of seals and guides. Whispergen has solved this problem with the patented Wobble Yoke system which converts the up and down motion of the pistons into the rotary motion necessary for driving a generator. The Wobble Yoke puts very little side load on the piston seals which results in longer lasting parts. In South-Africa given our cloud-coo-coo land legal system we can easily hack the patent and resell via fronting companies.

http://www.google.co.za/search?hl=en&as_q=patent&as_epq=wobble+yoke&as_oq=&as_eq=&num=10&lr=&as_filetype=&ft=i&as_sitesearch=&as_qdr=all&as_rights=&as_occt=any&cr=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&safe=images

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/5630351.html

http://nzsm.webcentre.co.nz/article292.htm

http://www.microchp.nl/stirling_engine.htm 3Kwatt units

http://www.newenergydirection.com/index.php?pr=Stirling_Engine

Buy the machine, strip it apart, scan every nut and bolt with a 3D-laser scanner(accurate to 0.001mm) upload the files in Autocad format together with the patent on the Internet.(this isn't illegal in any country because the patent is supposed to protect the IP). String 11 of these in parallel, combined with power electronics for a single AC wave, which in turn is converted into 3-phase AC 10Kwatt to power agriculture pumps or SA won' t have food in 5years because farmers can't pay the rates.

Stirling
search whispergen on youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhQXJOSkxxk Whispergen Belgium distributor under brand Magic Boiler.

http://www.sawaterheater.co.za HEATPUMP

http://www.sanevo.de German whispergen distributor

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9d929JhdHM&feature=related SANEVO whispergen actual cross section of engine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6vgWP5U5Ew&feature=related Balloon rotates on axis in high winds

RTM stirling
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJJcZ8xdKF4&feature=related 1 kW Stirling engine concept under development by mRT (Regenerative Thermal Machines). http://web.me.com/allan.j.o/Communicable_Insight/mRT-1k_.html Animation created by Duncan James of CADStudios (UK) Ltd. http://www.cadstudios.co.uk/

http://web.me.com/allan.j.o/Communicable_Insight/mRT-1k_.html EXCHANGERS Expansion:   Spiral tubes of 120 mm nominal gauge length and provisional φid = 3.0 mm substitute conventional, parallel tubes with a view (a) to exploiting internal secondary flows and associated enhancement of mass/heat transfer between boundary layer and free stream (b) achieving enhanced heat transfer between external surfaces and combustion products. Quantitative information on combustion-side NTU and working-gas-side NTU value are unavailable. In compensation, the multiple-spiral feature affords unprecedented flexibility* in varying both NTU values, and offers the possibility of eliminating the NTU mis-match normally tolerated as inevitable.

Schematics and Applications of the ST05G Stirling Engine drafted by www.ve-ingenieure.de

Energon stirling
Energon Industries Stirling Engine (Alpha Type) 02 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UepIs6D0BFU&feature=related

Stirling Engine, partially assembled, the movement of the crankshaft is shown as the connecting rods are pushed in and out. You can see the hot cylinder and the copper heat exchanger (Solar heater), as well as the ducts and regenerator housing.

Manufacturers
We need to build a large stirling engine putting out 3kv to run and heat our homes.The sun will be used to heat the hot end.This is being done by new age manufacturers in U.S., Sweden, Holland and China, after GESEP transferred U.S. MTI technology to China. At the time MTI, just came out of a large commercialization project with DOE, has the leading state of the art Stirling engine technology--Baxi Stirling engine,  (EGOGen); Whispergen (Stirling Engine); Disenco (Stirling); Vaillant (Stirling); Remeha (Stirling); Bosch (Stirling.All Are building large Engines

www.goldstirling.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU6IstOVsew&feature=related Video of my Stirling Engine running. Built in shop class at Newberg High School - its a double stirling design, one of three built so far. Built entirely from raw materials, with fairly extensive use of a HAAS CNC for machining many components. If anyone is interested, the shop teacher sells plans for his engine designs, check out http://www.goldstirling.com

ST-5 5hp
http://www.stirling-tech.com/gallery.shtml home page

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85gBA2k1-QQ&feature=related

The st-5 was HackPatents by koreans and is sold in china, korea in a low-key fashion. The ST-5 is a rugged engine designed to produce over 5 hp of mechanical power reliably and on demand, directly from a variety of renewable and gaseous fuels. Its external combustion Stirling cycle eliminates spark-plugs, fuel-injection systems, mufflers, noxious fumes and, very noticeably, the noise of internal combustion engines. This lack of complexity coupled with the use of high quality sealed bearings and long life Teflon impregnated seals, eliminates the need for messy oil changes and makes possible a long, trouble-free engine life. The ST-5 has been designed to be user serviceable with a minimum of basic hand tools.

Solar Stirling Engine by SunMachine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjvP3FJXVYI&feature=related

German comopany - StirlingMotoren
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIGLz88uG-s&feature=related

In commercial production, buy and hack somehow. 3kwh motor costs 27000 euro or about R300 000. But they will want to know where it will be installed and used, think of some scheme, they will ask questions.

PV cell 5x increase pt5 GROUP Thailand
It is the PTT GROUP Thailand

reflex mirror and simple tracking make 20 w pv increase power to 100 w for agro water pump

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKH2kbx8srY&feature=related

http://sustainabledesignupdate.com/2008/10/concentrated-solar-power/

Concentrating the sun’s rays onto a photovoltaic solar cell just makes good sense. Mirrors are relatively cheap and solar cells are relatively expensive. Solar cells can handle a lot more light than the amount that hits the earth’s surface so… Several start ups are working on novel ways to concentrate solar power onto high efficiency PV cells.

Cool Earth uses an inflated mylar baloon that just happens to make the right shape to focus the sun’s rays onto a small solar cell mounted in the middle of the top clear mylar film. Water cooling is required to keep the solar cell from melting. This technolgy will require maintenance to keep air pressure at just the right amount to maintain the shape, and replacement of the mylar balloons periodically.

Infinia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmdG5kpko9s&feature=related

A clip from the news on Infinia (previously known as Stirling Technology Co.), and their exciting implementation of advanced Stirling Engine designs for solar and CHP applications. UpBeatnik aka Vic Aguilar Solar Stirling motor 3kW infinia full video ( must see )

http://www.infiniacorp.com/powerdish.html

http://thepowerdish.com/

http://thepowerdish.com/#content=pricing Selling retail now in the USA. Use some fronting scheme to buy this motor 007 style because they won't export to South-Africa knowing it will be hacked.

Solar steam turbine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRYfsAExkUw&feature=fvw

http://www.acrosolarlasers.com/

adsf
http://www.qrmc.com

http://209.196.57.126/ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=&nm=&type=Publishing&mod=Publications%3A%3AArticle&mid=8F3A7027421841978F18BE895F87F791&tier=4&id=B46B4A859FB44C36A29301B38EDD8CB1 One company working on perfecting a Stirling engine design is the Quiet Revolution Motor Co. (www.qrmc.com), based in Spring City, Tenn. QRMC originally planned to produce airplane engines for use in general aviation. However, lately the company, which reportedly has one Stirling patent and several more in the works, has focused on distributed power generation as a promising market for Stirling engine technology.

SA designs
* http://www.green-trust.org/2000/enginetechnology/biowatt.htm $350 dollar 1kw  * by http://www.sunpower.com 97 patents on Stirling engine - http://www.sunpower.com/index.php?pg=22 * http://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=125393 eng forum RHOMBIC DRIVE STIRLING

Wood burning
http://www.navitron.org.uk/forum/index.php?topic=6849.0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LOcyjZthsg&feature=channel

Nasa design manual
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19830022057_1983022057.pdf

http://www.amazon.com/Stirling-Engine-Design-William-Martini/dp/1410216047/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1264781707&sr=1-1

opensource
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=b785df3d3d7eabe0576fed196500e57f

http://openstirlingengine.blogspot.com/

http://sites.google.com/site/openstirlingengine/Home

http://sites.google.com/site/openstirlingengine/Home/other-stirling-engine-sites-and-projects Links to links

http://www.emachineshop.com/machine-shop/New-Simplified-Heat-Engine/page150.html

magazine
http://www.memagazine.org/backissues/membersonly/may99/features/stirling/stirling.html

Stirling engine designs
http://www.stirlingengine.com/ecommerce/product.tcl?product_id=84 3.7Kwh to power your home design Use the FresnelLens design from http://www.3dlens.com/shop/ to power a smaller Stirling engine. Any size fresnel lens can be made as per FreeSpaceOptics.

http://www.stirlingengine.com/ecommerce/product.tcl?product_id=28

books
http://www.onetoremember.co.uk/cart.php?target=category&category_id=275&gclid=CMeN89KJkJ4CFVtn4wodnRzzpQ In this best selling book, New Zealander Ted Warbrooke describes how to build a unique form of Stirling Engine which does not have a displacer. The theoretical possibility of such an engine has been long considered, but as far as we are aware, Ted’s is the first design that actually works....

Dean Kamen
* http://ask.slashdot.org/index2.pl?fhfilter=stirling Has patents on Stirling engines. http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=7,507,169.PN.&OS=PN/7,507,169&RS=PN/7,507,169

sites.google
http://sites.google.com/site/stirlingengineproject/progress Univ. project

Turn old car engines into Stirling
http://arabic.jowhar.com/video/EOqWzefvlfg/STEAM-ENGINE-TWO-STROKE-CONVERSION-Weed-Eater-Steam-Power.html

http://arabic.jowhar.com/video/fP6UH4Vuxsc/STIRLING-ENGINE-TAKING-ONE-APART-HOT-AIR-ENGINE-Solar-Powered-Sun-Generator-Motor.html

http://arabic.jowhar.com/engi/

Stirling electric car combination
GizmagNotes described an inventor using a Stirling engine burning any biomass to charge an electric battery for an electric motor bike. The concept can be scaled up to electric cars. South-Africa has enormous landmass, invasive species like black wattle are converted to charcoal and every 20km besides the road, the driver "fills up" his Stirling engine. This allows a much reduced Lithium battery pack to be used, which will finally bring electric car technology below the cost of the internal combustion engine.

Patents on solar concentrators for Stirling engines, pat.6775982
http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/7281381/description.html and pat.6775982 use fiber cable to direct heat energy. This patent overcomes a the problem with parabolic reflectors which is the difficulty in focusing the energy unto a single point and is combined with the ......FRESNEL..... design enter here to generate electricity, pump water, hot water and solar oven applications. Quartz glass guiding light fiber increases temperature from 600 to 2000c degrees for Stirling engine operation. Overcomes the need to use a large array of parabolic reflectors which can't efficiently focus energy on the engine. Instead it uses a FresnelLens lens to focus the energy into Quartz glass guiding light bundles. A similar concept is used in FSO to create a point LED or laser light source increasing the effective power of light at a single point for focused energy as per patent [url]http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/6868236/fulltext.html%5B[/url]. Fresnel lenses between size of 1 and 20 square meters are used, with 20m generating 55Kw. The energy from the sun over 1square meter is 1000watts. This energy is focused by the Fresnel lens unto the light guiding fibers which focuses it onto a point for effective utilization to power a Stirling engine, power generator combination. The columnar light guiding fiber receiving portion is formed into a conical shape.' Fiber optic cables can channel enough energy to weld metal. By orienting the fibers temperature ranges between 600 and 2000 are selected for. The higher temperature ranges are used to generate hot water in addition to electricity. If only electricity is need the lower 600 are used.
 * Patent [url]http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/6775982/description.html[/url]
 * http://ipexl.com/patents/en/EP/Ceo_Centro_Di_Eccellenza_Optro/Longobardi_Giuseppe/EP0922914.html Optical system for utilizing solar energy

This Japanese patent solves a problem with Stirling engines in that they need to be kept level and not be tilted at angle to track the sun. Instead the fresnel lens tracks the sun and the flexible fiber cables delivers the heat energy.

The fiber end point is flexible which allows multiple smaller Fresnel lenses(reduces wind loading) to combine and used for generating MoltenSalts thermal energy. The cost of harvesting the 1000Watt energy per square meter from the sun depends on mass production of Glass sheeting material into which Fresnel rings are cut, Quartz fiber optic cable and steel to manufacture our own Stirling engines. Stirling engines have over 3500 patents. Search Japan patent database most of his patents are there: http://www.wipo.int/pctdb/en/wo.jsp?wo=2002037153 The telecoms, crime problem and energy problem(in countries like SA with sunlight) have thus been solved at the engineering level. What is preventing these ideas from being commercialized is a thicket of patents and cross licensing agreements that makes the end product to expensive. The only solution is to build it ourselves.

Connecting multiple Fresnel lenses
http://ipexl.com/patents/en/EP/Ilti_Luce_S_R_L/Albano_Carlo/EP1134486.html A collector assembly (1) for collecting and conveying sunlight has a fixed supporting body (2); a movable supporting body (23) connected to the fixed body (2) so as to rotate about a first (5) and a second (11) hinge axis crosswise to each other; a number of platelike Fresnel lenses (29), each of constant thickness and all lying in one common first plane (P); and, for each lens (29), a respective optical-fiber cable (33), a free face surface (33') of which, through which the sunlight travels in use, lies in a common second plane (P1) facing and apart from the first plane (P). Cites http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/4409963/fulltext.html

other notes
* http://www.mechtech.com/company/ , * http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/4633668/description.html, Mechanical Technology Incorporated * http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/6775982/description.html Solar heat utilizing stirling engine * http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/6701721/claims.html Stirling driven heat pump

Glass methods
http://gizmag.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=57c04fd0f2defe64b0f583dc7&id=22271a0d54&e=18542d78ef Might help with making sunlight directing glass.

Hydrogen from solar energy
* http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/5658448/fulltext.html ''Uses fiber to focus sun beams. See above'' * http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/6057504/fulltext.html Long shortwave seperation * http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/4943141/fulltext.html Solar collecting device * http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/pdfs/patent_id/4409963.html Stiches together multiple fresnel lenses * http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/pdfs/patent_id/4943141.html Solar ray collecting device

Stirling battery powered car
A design idea at Gizmag. Heat source turns a stirling engine which in turn charges a battery. Use molten salts as a thermal battery to power a stirling which charges a smaller battery, bringing down the costs considerably. HackPatents from http://www.gizmag.com/dean-kamen-segway-hybrid-scooter/12096/

Stirling Engines
Use a parabolic reflection system to power a Stirling engine without steam. http://www.stirlingenergy.com/technology/suncatcher.asp Sun catcher Stirling engine design as described in popular mechanics 2008 December. Sun catcher patent http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/7134279/fulltext.html Use a 3-D laser scanner to scan every screw, nut, bolt and curve on the Stirling engine into Autocad then publish the design somewhere on the internet.

* http://www.stirlingengine.com/ecommerce/product.tcl?product_id=84 3.7Kwh to power your home design * http://www.stirlingengines.org.uk/manufact/manf/usa/new2.html * http://www.stirlingbiopower.com/ New company * http://www.freshpatents.com/Hydrogen-equalization-system-for-double-acting-stirling-engine-dt20070301ptan20070044467.php * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swashplate_engine * http://www.wikipatents.com/5836846.html

Stirling vehicle engine with molten salt
http://www.stirlingengine.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=00005C&topic_id=Power-producing+Stirling+engines&topic=

OUR company SONCNA-ENERGIJA d.o.o. in SLOVENIA produced Parabolic Aluminium Mirror "PALMIR" base dimensions 2020 x 1165 mm with FOCAL lenght 750 mm. On FOCUS we have high temperature VACUUM ABSORBER made from INOX metal tube, protected with BOROSILICATE GLASS tube. The maximum temperature can be reached up to 400 degre celsius. If you use high temperature synthetic oil you can heat molten salt up to 350 degree celsius.This temperature can be used for running STIRLING MOTOR, for absorbtion cooling or steam production. I think we will must wait some time that somebody will use this kind of heat energy to run cars. The base problem is in STIRLING motor which must reach high efficiency (30%). In USA somebody have a patent. He patented that 1 dm3 special material will be heated to 3000 degre celsius and put in the car,which can transfer this temperature to mechanic work. He said that car can drive with this energy cca 600 mils. I think we will see this prototype after 20 years. by Igor Hrovatic

Multiple Stirling engine designs
The rotary action of the Stirling engine turns an alternator generating electricity. Multiple Stirling engine/AC currents are combined from multiple parabolic reflection systems into an inverter for 380v and 240volts to power farm pumps etc.
 * http://www.conceptsamerica.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=373
 * http://www.shopwiki.com/The+Desktop+Stirling+Engine DIY manuals on building your own Stirling engine.

Parabolic steam generation - Patent http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/6360542/fulltext.html from Orra corp. references Solar powered Stirling engine http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/4707990.html

Stirling viability
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.energy/browse_thread/thread/d09162094a59d76d/7634ce1b00ef26b9?q=%22solar+turbine%22#7634ce1b00ef26b9 Solar Stirling is arguably better than solar turbine. If you hook a Stirling heat engine to a parabolic reflector, and arrange for the Stirling engine to move a magnet through a coil, you get AC. Now, this system is 30% efficient (in heat to energy transfer). But you lose another third due to the sun only shining for eight hours, and another third due to solar tracking. Therefore, the whole system is 1/27 efficient.

Now, the sun falling on the Mojave desert is about 1 KW. If you take the current (wasteful) energy usage in the US, you'll find that it takes a square 170x170 miles filled with these 1/27th efficient solar generators to generate all that power. That's not a lot of land. Sure, it'll destroy an ecosystem, but aren't we already doing that with coal, oil, and nuclear energy generation?

There are a few difficulties I glossed over, like cooling the engines, and transmitting the power, but there are a number of existing, practical technologies for doing that. Even if they decrease the efficiency by one half, that only multiples the length of the side by sqrt(2).

Cost? Only about 7 military yearly budgets. Given that there's no input required, and a Stirling engine only has two moving parts, the cost of running the system should be fairly low, so all of the income could go to amortizing the debt.

Why aren't we doing this now? Partially because the company that owns the patent on the Stirling generator is fairly small, and also because people are unaware that such a solution exists.

Stirling Asia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njo_qzrsjsk&feature=related

ECHNOLOGY taken from Stirling Technologies Inc and Ultimate Air  USA

It has come to our attention that in Asia,specifically South Korea and China, there are companies with similar names who are representing themselves as being part of Stirling Technology, Inc. and UltimateAir. These companies are claiming that they are the owners and inventors of the technologies developed and patented by Stirling Technology Inc of Athens, Ohio, USA. Further, in some cases, they are claiming to actually own our company.

Only Stirling Engine Company, Japan SEC, Japan, Nobutoshi Tezuka, president,  licensed to sell ST-5 Stirling engine in Asia, Japan.

The ShenYang ultimate air ventilator Company LTD will be China license holder, with rights to requopAerotor air technology.

Stirling Technology Korea, Stirling Engine Company Korea, took the ST-5 engine and copied it. Owner w.s. Song or Nicholas Song. His Korean company is in the youtube video. he is marketing cryo cooled device, it is in production.

Stirling Engines China, operate out of Hong Kong, also copied ST-5 technology

links
http://www.stirlingsteele.com/ Full plans provided

http://www.stirlingbiopower.com

http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/4862695/claims.html ICE Cryogenic Engineering Ltd. 

http://www.mechanicalengineeringdrawings.com/reverse-engineering-services.php reverse engineer engines

http://www.overunity.com/index.php?topic=4189.15;wap2

A fellow named Beale invented the free piston Stirling engine. Here is one for sale.

http://www.stirlingengines.org.uk/manufact/manf/usa/new6.html

This thermoacoustic engine seems to be a better way to go. http://www.io.com/%7Efrg/tac.htm

There is a video of a working machine on the main page here. http://www.io.com/~frg/

More Stirling info http://www.sunpower.com/lib/sitefiles/pdf/productlit/Engine%20Brochure.pdf