For the hot end, an aluminium mount was pressed into soil, transferring the Earth’s ambient heat to the engine’s bottom plate ...

Solar panels do a remarkable job during the day; however, the hours when people need the most electricity rarely coincide ...

Have you ever imagined a bike powered not by gasoline or electricity, but by the simple act of heating and cooling air? It might sound like something out of a science fiction novel, but the concept is ...

E-bikes and motorcycles are great, but what if there were another way to get moving? What if there were a motor that didn't require the combustion of Odin's juice to get moving? Well, there are plenty ...

Are you sitting comfortably? Good. Then I’ll begin. Once upon a time in the mid-1950s, in a large engineering complex somewhere in the Midwest, a supervisor had a very large floor area to cover. To ...

Over on his YouTube channel [Tom Stanton] shows us how to build a Stirling Engine for a bike. A Stirling Engine is a heat engine, powered by the expansion and contraction of a working fluid (such as ...

A hot air or Stirling engine runs without carburetors, injectors, cams, valves, timing chains, spark plugs, or anything. It’s incredibly simple and can even be emissions negative, running on waste ...

It’s an elemental thing, the 2.0-liter Mercedes-Benz Targa Florio. You’re out in the wind, the exhaust snarling at your right elbow, the smell of oil on hot metal in your nostrils as you muscle a ...

UK scientists have proposed a way to combine photovoltaic-thermal energy with Stirling engines and battery storage in residential buildings. Despite the high upfront costs, they said the ...

BOFFINS in China have reportedly cooked up a chilling Microwave Cannon "that can down satellites" with waves 68,000 times stronger than Earth's magnetic field. The terrifying weapon is augmented by ...