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Blast from the Past: NASA's Stirling-powered AMC Spirit

Over the last few months, Segway-inventor Dean Kamen has made headlines for installing a Stirling engine in an older EV from Th!nk to create an extended-range electric vehicle. Interestingly, this is not at all the first time a Stirling engine was used to power an automobile. Apparently, the U.S. Department of Energy tasked NASA with the job of fitting an American-made car with a Stirling engine way back in the 1970s when the first oil crisis had the country in its grasp. After realizing it lacked a certain amount of expertise in refitting ... Read more →

Dean Kamen working on hybrid scooter with Stirling engine Jeremy Korzeniewski

We've known about Dean Kamen's work on the Stirling engine for hybrid vehicle use since the inventor introduced the DEKA Revolt late last year. According to some recently-filed patent ...

Blast from 1969: GM ad for Stirling-engine hybrid, the Stir-Lec I Sebastian Blanco

We've seen GM's very ahead-of-the-curve Stir-Lec concept before, but BangShift has found another old magazine ad scan to share with the rest of the class internet. As we wrote last time, the ...

More on Kamen's ambitious plans for the Stirling engine Jeremy Korzeniewski

Dean Kamen may be best known as the man behind the iconic and oft-maligned Segway Personal Transporter, but his fertile mind is always full of interesting ideas. Lately, the inventor has turned his ...

Dean Kamen's Stirling car is an old Ford Th!nk Sebastian Blanco

The other day, we touched on the Stirling engine that Segway-inventor Dean Kamen was working on for a hybrid car. Kamen has now displayed his prototype, based on an old Ford Th!nk, to the media. ...

Dean Kamen working on Stirling engine-assisted electric car 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

The internal combustion engine, as we've known it for over a century, is what's known as an open cycle device. That is, the so-called working fluid flows into and out of the engine and is constantly circulated. A closed cycle engine keeps the same working fluid contained within the device and ...

Cyclone Power Technologies engine runs on waste heat 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Cyclone Power Technologies has introduced a new engine which they say runs on waste heat. Previously, engines from Cyclone Power utilized external combustion. The Waste Heat Engine (WHE) is capable of running on any heat source and is said to work at fairly low temperatures. Possible sources of heat ...


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