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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 →

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 ...

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. ...

Instructable of the day: build your own Stirling engine Jeremy Korzeniewski

It is possible to turn heat (or cold) into usable energy by using a Stirling engine. Invented by Reverend Dr. Robert Stirling and patented by him in 1816, the Stirling engine is rarely used these ...

Stirling Engines: time for a comeback for these 1970s experimental car engines? Sebastian Blanco

Reader Sarah Turner emailed in a question yesterday asking about the Stirling Engine and what might come be it’s future as a power source in automobiles. Since this is an excellent topic that, I ...

Blast from the Past: NASA's Stirling-powered AMC Spirit 4 months ago on Autoblog Green

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 ...

Blast from 1969: GM ad for Stirling-engine hybrid, the Stir-Lec I 5 months ago on Autoblog Green

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 Stir-Lec used a Stirling engine (and a helium reservoir) in the rear of the vehicle that recharged a ...

Dean Kamen's Stirling car is an old Ford Th!nk 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

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. Called the 2008 DEKA Revolt, the prototype can apparently go about 60 miles on a full charge of the ...

Instructable of the day: build your own Stirling engine 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

It is possible to turn heat (or cold) into usable energy by using a Stirling engine. Invented by Reverend Dr. Robert Stirling and patented by him in 1816, the Stirling engine is rarely used these days for the generation of power or to do any real work, but it is often used as a model or even as a ...

Stirling Engines: time for a comeback for these 1970s experimental car engines? 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

Reader Sarah Turner emailed in a question yesterday asking about the Stirling Engine and what might come be it’s future as a power source in automobiles. Since this is an excellent topic that, I think, will interest a lot of AutoblogGreen readers, I’m re-asking the question here. If ...


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