The Stirling engine concept, named after Scottish inventor Robert Stirling who introduced his model in 1816, is sometimes called an external combustion engine because heat is applied from outside ...

In 1816, engineer Robert Stirling invented his proprietary Stirling engine, an automatic power source operated by ambient heat rather than direct fuel sources like an internal combustion engine.

Beginning with the principles of the Stirling engine, SoundEnergy's THEAC thermal acoustic engine takes heat – either industrial waste heat or solar heat – and turns it into powerful cooling ...

Josh “Mac” MacDowell of San Antonio Texas had a brilliant idea. He took a Stirling engine, a type of engine developed 200 years ago, and added some 21st-century technology to it. The result is ...

The Stirling engine seems like an odd-ball design when you’ve only encountered gas and Diesel engines. Even though the Stirling engine is piston based it doesn’t use valves. It has a sealed ...

A tiny Stirling engine is one of the coolest desk toys you can have. Since it requires nothing more than a difference in temperature to get going, you can just throw it on your laptop ...

is another example of this. It has just raised more cash to help it develop products based on the “Stirling engine,” which creates electricity by processing various types of fuel, and by using ...

Instead a Stirling engine uses hot and cold chambers to expand and compress gas, driving pistons in the process. It's a machine that is remarkably quiet and efficient - where an application can be ...

Two researchers from the University of Stuttgart and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Valentin Blickle and Clemens Bechinger, successfully shrank the Stirling heat engine down to ...