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Hairyloon

Joined: 20 Nov 2008
Posts: 15428
Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.

Posted: Fri Feb 07, 25 10:18 am Post subject:

Tom Booth wrote:

I found this solar Stirling engine for sale on eBay.

How much did it go for?

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46302
Location: yes

Posted: Fri Feb 07, 25 12:23 pm Post subject:

hi there mr H, good to see you here

re a decent use for the thing, rather than a huge mirror in a desert a rocket stove in an arctic forest might be a good energy harvester

if it is sunny PV etc works well with modern kit, a Swedish winter is not PV friendly and gasifying wood to run an ice genny or cutting enough wood for steam engine is a pita without it being -30Cand dark 23 hrs a day
dragging the kit around is a problem with steam or gas/distillate production

ps the huge mirror things are huge and impractical for small scale or mobile but you do get a constant supply of semi cooked birds

Tom Booth

Joined: 06 Jan 2025
Posts: 10

Posted: Fri Feb 07, 25 4:33 pm Post subject:

Hairyloon wrote:

How much did it go for?

Actually, I misspoke. I did not buy it on eBay directly myself. Someone posted to the Stirling engine forum that they had bought it on eBay but never did anything with it after having it in storage for 3 years. He never said exactly what he paid, he just thought I should have it. (I think he may have said he paid about $3,000)

My main expense was the long road trip from New York to Colorado with my wife to pick it up. The guy did not want to ship it and the shipping would have likely cost more than the trip, so we made a vacation out of it.

I believe, from the model number "Y" something, it had been manufactured for a large milk processing plant in Yuma Arizona.

https://www.encapdevelopment.com/gh-dairy.html

A few (or at least one) were sent to various universities for testing and were never installed for actual use at the dairy, I have one or those "Test" engines.

Hairyloon

Joined: 20 Nov 2008
Posts: 15428
Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.

Posted: Fri Feb 07, 25 8:56 pm Post subject:
What is it rated for?

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45695
Location: Essex

Posted: Fri Feb 07, 25 9:55 pm Post subject:
Bloody hell, how you doing?

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