Operation of a Beale free piston Stirling engine with a 40-W CO2 laser is described. Advantages of such a system include: closed-cycle operation, long life, inexpensive construction, and size scalability to 100 MW.
Initial experiments with a laser driven Stirling engine
1976-01-01
Conference paper
No indication
English
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