A friend of ours turned us on to a simple and easy to build steam engine. Called the Green Steam Engine, it’s simple and novel design appealed to our DIY approach. We can burn veggie oil in a turk burner to produce the steam, or even boil water on a wood stove. The engine can then turn one of our axial flux permanent magnet alternators to charge our battery bank. Clean, quiet, and sustainable.
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Professionally, I'm an IT Engineer (Executive Level) and Electronics Tech. Philosophically, I'm a Green Conservative, and probably would have been a hippie in the 60's if I had been old enough. I live off grid, with Solar (PV), Wind, and veggie oil fueled diesel generator power, and have been teaching and living sustainable technology for over 10 years.
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October 3rd, 2006 at 6:42 am
Very interesting stuff - I like it very much.
Have you got some performance data already ?
October 3rd, 2006 at 11:44 am
We have not aquired a unit yet, but will post data when we do.
March 27th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
This looks like a more economical idea that a Honda $10,000 furnace or a Stirling engine. I just hope some manufacture wants to take a flier on it.