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PASCO SE-8575 VISIBLE STIRLING ENGINE User Manual

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The Visible Stirling Engine

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When you buy gasoline to run your car, what is it that you are really buying?

If hot water could be used to run a car, why do we buy gasoline instead of hot water? Hot water
would be a zero pollution engine.

How much stored energy is there in a gallon of gasoline?

Some of the air makes the piston bulge up around the edges when the air moves to the hot side.
Does this air do any useful work?

Would the engine put out more power if this flexible piston was replaced with a very tight fitting
light weight graphite piston?