Just how small can you make an engine? Two researchers from the University of Stuttgart and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Valentin Blickle and Clemens Bechinger, successfully ...

Since Robert Stirling invented the Stirling engine in 1816, it has been used in an array of specialized applications. That trend continues today. Its compatibility with clean energy sources is ...

One of the 10-kilowatt Stirling engine units that helps provide power and heat to 100 Commercial Street in the Manchester Millyard. Credit: Photo courtesy DEKA Research Sign up for the Concord Monitor ...

If you have never come across a Stirling engine, these fantastic pieces of engineering were first built in the early 19th century. The Stirling engine operates by cyclic compression and expansion of ...

A tiny, particle-sized engine that runs at temperatures approaching the innermost core of the Sun could open a window into the smallest extremes of thermodynamics. By levitating a single particle of ...

Nearly 200 years after their invention, and decades after first being proposed as a method of harnessing solar energy, 60 sun-powered Stirling engines are about to begin generating electricity outside ...

So long as the mild heat or cold source is present, it will run. It was invented in 1816 by Reverend Dr. Robert Stirling, a Scottish clergyman and engineer, as an alternative to steam engines, which, ...

One of the most unusual looking cars at this year’s Shell Eco-marathon Europe was testing out one of the oldest concepts for harnessing energy for motion: the Stirling heat engine. Team Schluckspecht ...

The model Stirling engine is a staple of novelty catalogues, and we daresay that were it not for their high price there might be more than one Hackaday reader or writer who might own one. All is not ...

With the climate warming, the seas rising, the flooding of portions of Miami and other East Coast cities a regular occurrence and the government already spending millions to relocate people living on ...