The Stirling external combustion engine has fascinated gear heads since its inception, and while the technology has never enjoyed widespread commercialization, there’s a vibrant community of ...

Because of that, they took a back seat to other competitors, mainly steam and the new internal combustion engine. Stirling engines were confined to low power applications, such as ventilators ...

A Closed-loop, External Combustion, Thermal Exchange Engine. Perfect for submarines because it doesn't require air or exhuast to run.

That year, Stirling Moss and Denis Jenkinson drove ... and even with alternate fuels and methods of propulsion, the internal combustion engine remains the biggest game in town.

Based on technology that pre-dates the internal combustion engine by nearly a century, the Stirling engine is closer in concept to a steam engine, using external combustion, and without the need ...

Powered by an external combustion Stirling engine, it’s a fully operation Stephenson locomotive. Well, the mini-version, of course. Made in Germany from machine-tooled solid brass, stainless ...

“in a Stirling engine, the necessary heat is produced in a separate combustion chamber and transferred to the engine’s working gas, operating in a completely closed system. The working gas ...