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Tuesday, October 04, 2005 Stirling Engine  I don't know if you have ever seen one of these, but it is a Stirling Engine. It uses external combustion using gases that are heated. When they are heated the gases expand and it pushes the pistons back and forth!! Is this cool or what? You don't use gas!! This one is on Ebay and reads...The engine is fired by a spirit burner. The flame - and thus the number of revolutions – is adjustable by variation of the length of the glass fibre wick. With the highest burner flame the engine reaches 2,000 rpm. With low spirit consumption a long running period can be reached. The newest version is ball-bearing mounted and it is possible to drive a smooth-moving WILESCO driving model. The wooden base-plate is 138mm long and 60mm wide and has a recess for the spirit burner. The diameter of the flywheel is 50mm. 
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