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Likely inventing alternative energy is just the easy part.Beating the mother off all interest called the oil industry(that pretty much owns the military-industrial-media -intelligence complex)to systematically integrate it is the hard part.
Would be “slightly” naive to assume they’d simply say bye bye to their trillion dollar industry not?

I discuss the working of the stirling engine on my site, feel free to take a look and point out any mistakes

Those always make me smile. I made one cheaply out of tin cans and put it on my channel. Enjoy!

I have a heliostat system which cost effective

the $64,001 question is.. can you transform that motion into electric and store it, and if so can you can you get more energy that way than using solar panels alone?

Something like this would be good for recharging solar batteries after a few days of no sun.

yes, if you can get a city-block sized lens to focus light on to the hot region of the engine. it only worked without the lens for that long because the focused light heated the engine up to an incredible temperature. if you want the engine to run through few days of no sun, not only need a huge lens, you also need some sort of system where you can take the hot region off and store it in a thermo so it can be used later on

i doubt it. if you cool the engine by rotating a fan, that fan is exerting a resistance to the engine’s motion. what you can do, however, is have heat-pipes to a water supply (preferably running, like stream or river) and cool the “cold” side of the engine. and heat-recycling would be extremely hard. the hottest part is where the heat is applied, and heat only moves away from there, unless u got a heat pump, which still will make it less efficient

FAIL. guess what, they heat water to super-heated, super compressed state, and push it through a turbine to generate electricity. super heated oil is not as good as water, since water hold more energy per unit mass, and since it is in vapor state, it will give off more energy as it expands and condenses. your oil idea sounds good, but if it worked, it would’ve been done decades ago

Who can answer that question?
Very Fascinating idea here maybe a grand solution

The problem with alternative energy solutions comes down to control and what I call the paradise paradox. Let us suppose that President Obama achieved everything he says he wants to achieve for the US – less dependency on foreign oil, and increased alternative energy sources FOR THE USA. What about Mexico ? Their economy is based on oil, which is depleting fast. I expect huge waves of migration unto the USA, negating the benefits for alt. energy solutions in the years ahead.

That does not necessarily explain the last 8 years, highest “migration” ever. I think anything different than the last 8 years is a step in the right direction. Mexico has sun, waves and wind. Boosting their economy with alternative energy possibilities benefits both. Moving away from fossil fuels is the best choice. 100% is not realistic but ever 5% drops in crude demand reduces crude oil prices dramatically.

Solar can reach remote areas in need.

how much did you spend for this engine?

actually, just fyi, Mexican immigrations is at its lowest in years and is excepted to turn into migration back into Mexico within the next 2 years.

Awesome for demostrating the Laws of Thermodynamics. Trucking useless for practical application.

Isn’t it the available torque that can drive a generator the question ?

Any kind of new energy ideas works for me. Search SuperWaveFusion and you will be amazed… A real breakthrough could be happening.

Yep, and this thing isn’t generating enough for practical power generation.

another you tube video demonstrating the same thing claims it’s a matter of scale: 30′ gets 30KW

yep

hellas

this is far from a new idea, andthe big problem about this type of engine is of course how it’s gonna run with no sun.

If is is a couldy day?
But i was suprised how long it stored the warm air, and this is a very good alternative to places that has much sun and little clouding, like deserts.

So all in all a good idea for backup energy but i can power anything real time because of the unstable energysource.

Interesting idea.

However, In a world which last year consumed a total (from all sources of energy) just over 480 Quadrillion British Thermal Units, it is of little practical use.

The problem with providing a solution to the world’s dependence on fossil fuels, has always been how you get around the realities of the Laws of Thermodynamics?

Simply put, you can’t.

However, if a solution did somehow present itself, how responsible would mankind be with it?

That is the more important issue.

how do you think it would run if it stayed in the sun for 5 hours? i think it would run about 3 hours.

if you have to pull or push start it then you are using the wrong engine mechanics, have you tried a turbine instead of a piston?