So many moving parts
So little capacity
Technician employment dream.

This was an interesting technology many years ago. Today, distributed PV and large wind systems are the most cost-effective way to generate electricity.

Seems like banksters are stealing from the public and funding more corporate graft and incompetence, as usual.

Environmentally benign renewable energy production needs to be rewarded by real-world performance with a RECs-based monetary system:

JPChance.wordpress.com

This is one of the best technologies in the world. At just the right time hence the star alignment analogy. We need good jobs now , I am an unemployed technician. As long as US can manufacture these things domestically,because China will dominate the wind and solar manufacture. The stirling engine is versatile, not restricted to solar concentrators, with nat gas , biofuel or wood pellets will make for 24/7 combined heat and power generating .. and they will out produce pv and wind per square foot space, allowing for decentrallized power. Let's have all cards on the table.

One of the good features of the Stirling solar farms over PV installations is that it should be very easy to make them capable of burning natural gas for generating at night or in cloudy weather. The engines themselves are very reliable because they have very low vibration and few moving parts compared to a diesel. The big challenge is whether the materials are up to the high heat differentials needed to for high efficiency.

SunCatchers are three times as efficient as PV, not dependent on silican supply, built like refrigerators with a 25+ year hermetically sealed engine, efficiency does NOT degrade as the systems age. The best part is they use very,very little water. My bet is utilty scale electric storage, batteries, super capacitors, flywheels, compressed air, will soon give solar its deseved 24/7 capability. Jobs are key. These are being built using internationally established automotive manufacturing companies like Tower Automotive. To them its just a funny shapped automobile. Tower is building a $50 million automotive style plant just to build stirling components in Phoenix, AZ. Check out their wevsite: www.stirlingenergy.com They are ready to take orders!

Stirling Energy Systems is at the top of our Top 100 Clean Energy Projects lising at Top100Energy dot com due to their being able to use economies of scale to produce utility sized plants that can compete with and even surpass the price point of natural gas and coal power plants. -- New Energy Congress dot org

I tried to contact SES, they wouldn't give me the time of day.I have a 25kw off grid on site system I designed on a smaller scale with a hydrogen storage.CSPs are the way to go .I want to talk to anyone interested in working on creating a working project.

Demetri-Wagner's comment about using existing plants like auto factories to build these is excellent. The U.S. needs jobs - how many places can you think of where a manufaturing plant and 3 shifts of skilled workers sit on unemployment lines? American workers are skilled and adaptable - and think of the pride any worker would feel knowing what they are building will make the planet better for theirchildren and grandchildren. Re-tooling and reopening these facilities would also have down and upstream effects on the supply chain and local businesses where the plant workers shop.
Where is the imagination and leadership on this issue?

RocnBob, I work for a UK energy institute where we are working on stirling engines, recently proposing a CSP set up for off grid communities. We have concentrated most of our work in Europe, but if you would like to discuss projects I work for the Sir Joseph Swan Institute for Energy Research www.ncl.ac.uk/energy the wesite is under review at the moment, but should give you an idea of the type of work we do. Just search for Stirling Engine.

Everything is out in the middle of the desert. I think there is a future market for commercial solar in more highly populated areas.


Check out this revolutionary new company. Envisionary Solar (EVSI)....They are turning the traditional solar panel(ugly and hidden),into something that can be placed in plain site, and used as a shade tree along with the practicality of utilizing green solar energy.

Check out some of their concepts in these short videos...

http://envisionsolar.com/video/

EVSI.OB had it's IPO about 2 months ago

I want more details about Sterling engine and would like to buy one no for our inhouse testing of solar disc.

Please send me details: mukeshdobariya@kemrock.com

I want more details about Sterling engine and would like to buy one no for our inhouse testing of solar disc.

Please send me details: mukeshdobariya@kemrock.com

I want more details about Sterling engine and would like to buy one no for our inhouse testing of solar disc.

Please send me details: mukeshdobariya@kemrock.com