May 19th, 2006
Feeling guilty about your home's energy bills? You should be, especially if you are getting your electric from a company that uses coal or other fossil fuels to generate your power.
But look at the bright side, there's a new game in town, and you can't get the story from a magazine. (OK that was soooo 70's corny) Technology is being developed and is the testing faze that might make you feel a little better.
One of these uses a Stirling Cycle Engine and solar collectors. What, pray tell, is a Stirling Cycle engine? Probably one of the most efficient energy producing devices ignored by man for almost 200 years.
The stirling engine was developed to compete with the steam engine right about the time as the steam engine came out. But hey coal was cheap and all over the place so it went the way of the Dodo, almost.
With todays engery crisis popping up left and right, many companies are taking a closer look at the Stirling engine. One of these is Stirling Energy Systems, Inc. They plan on putting up a grid similar to those in California that will produce quite a chuck of energy, after all, how much fuel do we really have when China get it's hands on automobiles?
To see what SES is doing check out thier website http://www.stirlingenergy.com. I'll wait here while you do…..
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Ok Now that you have gotten a good look, wouldn't you love to have one of these baby's in you back yard?
Salitica