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2010 Soccer World Cup: start building Stirling engines now!!! 2008-05-03 14:20:00 To channel the Sun's energy to power the infrastructure during the 2010 world cup soccer event. In the Karoo, Northern Cape, there is mega hectares of desert-like area with immense energy from the sun per square metre than most places around the world.Build solar Stirling engine farms much like here on Youtube.It's worth the investment because subsequent to the world cup, South Africa would be able to benefit from clean, abundant energy. We could even then pump some of it up into Africa to become and even bigger energy supplier to our neighbours, Zimbabwe included. We would hope that by that time Zim has settled down back into the rich prosperous country that it actually is, if it weren't for Robert Mugabe's self-centred rampage.See below (previous post) for video clips of my friend Pete g Read more:Soccer
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Building a Sterling engine: Photos and videos 2008-05-03 10:01:00 Pete has built another in a series of Stirling engines, each one better than before, experimenting with permutations towards the ultimate engine.Below is a series of video clips that takes us through the creation and installation of anew displacer, as the previous one one was damaged during experimentation.
Here the displacer is being cut using a hot knife and guided by the chamber.
The new displacer being removed from its previous state in a sheet of polystyrene.
The displacer was not cut 100% correctly and thus needs to be filed off to obtain a maximum roundness., which is important for its smooth functioning.
To further smooth off the edges, insulation tape is being used to seal off the edge of the displacer
The displacer gets inserted into the chamber.
The top and bottom en Read more:Building
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Recycling: All you need for your own energy producer 2008-05-03 03:01:00 Pete collects discarded computer hardware and peripherals from a a company or 2.By stripping them down into their components, it results in several collections of all kinds of resources. This enables him to at negligible cost, build renewable energy devices.Another obvious advantage to recycle or used recycled parts, is our attempt to slow down our devious effect on our planet, our home. If you have not seen 'An inconvenient truth', then please do so and consider what you can do towards this goal of being able to inhabit this planet for a while longer before the environment turns seriously nasty and uninhabitable.Consider that extracting resources and producing parts of things requires energy, and it is this very energy that is fast becoming a scarce resource.The equation is simple: Too ma Read more:Recycling
Welcome 2008-05-01 07:48:00 Greets. A friend of my, Pete, is into many interesting things. many of which are focused on recycling and developing alternative energy systems. In this blog you will be shown many resources in this field, as well as various related devices being built.SaviorTech also contains many links to useful resources with handy descriptions to point you in the direction of much more content you can use to become energy self-sustaining.Being dependant on oil or national power grids is fast becoming an obviously costly and nonsensical idea, especially in South Africa where we are dealing with the effects of 'Load Shedding', our local power monopoly's term for the way that electricity is cut to certain parts of the grid on a several-weekly basis. This, so that they can conserve energy because the suppl Read more:Welcome
Another sterling engine: this one rocks! 2008-05-05 10:31:00 While optimising the Stirling engine shown below, Pete decided to complete another one he has built. Here are some videos of this speeding baby in action.It's heat source is a simple flame not much larger than that of a candle. A great way to charge a cellphone, as one of its many possible applications.
Here we get it started by adding the flame to the hot side of the engine, waiting a tad for pressure to accumulate, and then giving it a gently spin to get the motion process going.
Here one sees it running at high speed. One has to actually stop it some some point in fear that it would cause mechanical damage. These are all issues to be resolved while evolving such a piece of machinery.
A video clip of the Stirling engine running at high speed, with some close-ups showing some of the
Faster and faster: Stirling engine optimisation 2008-05-06 23:30:00 Pete has optimised the latest Stirling engine to run at an even higher rate. Later today I'll post some videos and photos of this and how he achieved it. Exciting stuff!
Generating power from a Stirling engine 2008-05-13 23:03:00 Pete upgraded his latest Stirling engine to generate power
. Not much watts at this point, but enough to prove the concept. magnets attached to the spinning wheel, facing 9 coils, thus inducing the current. Enough to drive an LED quite brightly.
Stirling Engine generating power / electricity 2008-05-17 04:01:00 Here Pete's Stirling Enginegenerating
an electrical current. Magnets are placed along the edge of the spinning disk. Placed fairly close to that disk is another disk holding 12 coils, all linked. When the Stirling engine is running, it spins the disk, which allows the magnets to interact with the coils, hence producing a current of power
. As this prototype is optimised and evolved, it will be cap Read more:electricity
Close up of stirling engine 2008-05-22 10:35:00 Here one sees the closer mechanical power connections of the Pete's latest Stirling engine Read more:Close
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