Caleb James DeLisle on Nostr: Interesting, 200kw external combustion (sterling-like) generator, 60% efficient. It's ...
Interesting, 200kw external combustion (sterling-like) generator, 60% efficient.
It's external combustion, so it's just burning fuel to put heat into the helium that is in the core - so it can burn "anything", they say explicitly they can support ```Hydrogen, Natural Gas, R/CNG, Biogas, Propane, Ammonia, Methanol, Diesel, Jp-8, Gasoline, and more.```
In theory it should be possible to run it on solid fuel, but there are challenges because the heat exchanger will get clogged if the fuel burns smokey.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FR4i2DcequI 
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2026-05-09 22:29:57 UTCEvent JSON
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