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Old 04-17-2023, 07:50 PM   #85 (permalink)
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Doesn't help that we have decades go by without building a plant, so it's not like the guys who knew what they were doing are still around, or keep in practice.
All the extant text and images are fodder for machine learning. With a large enough training set, one could interrogate the guys in question. Anyways, ECE forevah!

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https://www.autoblog.com › 2009 › 07 › 08 › blast-from-the-past-nasas-stirling-powered-amc-spirit
Blast from the Past: NASA's Stirling-powered AMC Spirit
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...

https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Applications_of_the_Stirling_engine
Applications of the Stirling engine - Wikipedia
Tests conducted with the 1979 AMC Spirit, as well as a 1977 Opel and a 1980 AMC Concord, revealed the Stirling engines "could be developed into an automotive power train for passenger vehicles and that it could produce favorable results." [10]
....and of course, we'll always have the napthamobile:


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