What would you do with a Stirling Engine?

[Wayne C.]

The premier of Dean's stirling engine on 60 Minutes was both interesting and informative and typically Kamen. If the machine can in fact generate electricity and purify water what would you do with it?

Here are my suggestions

1. make a solar heat source- use the sun to heat up the stirling and cut out combustion altogether. Generation of the heat could be done easily with lenses and mirrors. Combustion of fuel causes air pollution and burning wood in the third world countries has largely deforested them wrecking the ecosystems.

2. use the electric current to take the water and electrolyze it into Hydrogen and oxygen. Then use the hydrogen to make fuel for larger vehicles.

3. since the water purification device is essentially a still why not use it to distill toxic waste or sewage and condense the material into semisolids? These would then be incinerated for electric power or disposed of in appropriate landfills.

Hey Dean- if you are following this- if you go with any of these remember you heard it here FIRST. He he

What are your suggestions?

WC