Dean Kamen’s New Car Uses Stirling Engine
A Kurzweil AI report (with photo) of an article from New Hampshire’s Union Leader tells of Segway (and more successful projects) inventor Dean Kamen’s new role in automobile manufacturing.
The Stirling cycle is an external combustion design, has safety, efficiency, and energy source flexibility advantages over traditional internal combustion engines. Stirlings aren’t as susceptible to altitude differences since they don’t burn a precise mixture of fuel and air under compression, but instead just use heat from any outside source.
Video demo of Stirling engine at YouTube.
