His Stirling engine was much safer because it worked on a different principle than steam. Instead of relying on the expansion of high-pressure steam, the Stirling engine is a closed system with a ...

Engineers at the University of California, Davis, have built a small device that produces mechanical power at night by exploiting the contrast between ambient warmth and the extreme cold of outer ...

Engineers are using the temperature difference between Earth and space to power a low-temperature Stirling engine that drives a fan. The UC Davis engineers used a technique over 200 years old: the ...

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 ...

In 1816, engineer Robert Stirling invented his proprietary Stirling engine, an automatic power source operated by ambient heat rather than direct fuel sources like an internal combustion engine. It ...