kamen Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:03:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 DEKA Revolt: First Hybrid Stirling Engine Car – Powered by Anything! https://www.greenoptimistic.com/deka-revolt-stirling-engine-car-20081111/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/deka-revolt-stirling-engine-car-20081111/#comments Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:03:45 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=1181 Dean Kamen, a UK inventor, has just released to the public a modified electric Ford Th!nk, hacked in his DEKA labs. DEKA is his company located in Manchester Millyard. Kamen's modified electric car has a Stirling engine onboard, into the trunk. He uses the stirling engine mainly to defrost and heat the car, because the systems doing that are huge power consumers.

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