NY Times: "Recently published patent applications bolster the tantalizing speculation that Mr. Kamen may indeed have something much bigger up his sleeve."  [Scripting News]

A Stirling powered Segway... interesting. Doing my thing: A methane burning refuling station that draws gas off the sewer pipes to power the electrical generation. Put them on every street corner, or jsut at public transport stations, so that your scooter can recharge while you are off in the city.

If a community/city adopted these, you coudl pay to lease it as public transport, of course, the liablity is going to be murder, but to cut down on traffic would be pretty sweet.

Interesting, very interesting. Use this stirling engine for power generation in remote farms, or tap landfills to get the methane from the breakdown of biomass, and you have reliable power far away from any grid. This also allows for local co-generation reducing power costs by tapping into the otherwise lost resources.

Gah. NASA is developing Stirling engines for use in space. This is perfect application for a stirling engine, given how it works. Set the hot side to face the sun, and the cool side looking out at the inky blackness of space, and you are set. If you wanted to maximize the heat generation from the light coming in, you could use a cluster of  fiber optic tapers to maximize light gathering.

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