hot air engine Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:20:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 The Stirling Engine (or hot air engine) Explained https://www.greenoptimistic.com/the-stirling-engine-or-hot-air-engine-explained-20080206/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/the-stirling-engine-or-hot-air-engine-explained-20080206/#comments Wed, 06 Feb 2008 07:38:11 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/index.php/2008/02/06/the-stirling-engine-or-hot-air-engine-explained/ 1820, when steam engines operated everywhere, Robert Stirling, a Scottish vicar, and his brother James built a new engine. They used an outside burn, additionally hot air was sufficient for the operation of the engine. This principle has theoretically already been developed by the English flight pioneer Sir George Cayley twenty years earlier. Stirling proceeds […]

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