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Originally Posted by basslover911
So long story short, they actually patented a Stirling Series power plant. In other words, a sterling engine driving an electric generator with thermocouples in between to extract extra energy from the exhaust heat. All this connected to some batteries and ultimately an electric engine.
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Practical Stirling engines all have heat exchangers. The exhaust temperature is so low that thermocouples are useless.
Thermocouples are, as a practical matter, useless even with the hot exhaust of an I.C. engine because their efficiency is so low.