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  1. Dec 24, 2020, 04:42 PM #1
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    Four-cylinder Stirling engine - GIF

    Four-cylinder Stirling engine.




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    What never ceases to amaze me about Stirling engines is the speed they can achieve. Every cycle of the power piston corresponds to a heating/cooling cycle of the gas in the displacer chamber. That a volume of gas can be cycled so quickly between two temperature states is simply astounding.

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    I wonder what the torque could be...



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