1895 Stirling Water Pump
I noticed this cool Stirling engine water pump a long time ago, but never got around to blogging about it. This external combustion motor is heated with a gas burner, but there are solar powered Stirling engines you can look at online, too. Built in 1895, it originally pumped water a hundred feet into the air, presumably up to a tank to provide water pressure at its off-grid island location.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBZDJn6B0cs
“At the Bracebridge Canada Fail Fair Sept 2006, a man explains his 1895 ’stirling engine’: highly efficient, long-lasting, quiet, reliable, low-maintenance, off-the-grid. Filmed by alternative energy systems engineer Barry Miller; edited by Snowshoe Documentary Films (nerak); banjo by Andy Fitzgibbon. (snowshoefilms.com)”
