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Aug272007
Dean Kamen will save the world
I love this guy, in my opinion he’s the worlds foremost, builder/inventor/gadgeteer/thinker/geek… His sterling engine project(s) certainly raise my eyebrows. Especially if you consider that he can engineer one to run on just about any kind of junk:“We run two villages in Bangladesh on Stirlings that run on freakin’ cow dung,” says Kamen, who envisions Stirling engines powering the world’s off-the-grid villages and using the waste heat produced by the engine to purify water.
Putting one of his sterlings into this “smart car” made by Think, this would probably extend its mileage by hundreds of miles, that’s crazy… If only there were more “thinkers” like him in the world, or if our government would forego the oil company lobbies’ money, we could quite possibly change the way we consume energy across our country. I wish Kamen was an American inventor so we could have him all to ourselves, but then again, perhaps he’ll actually make a difference in England…
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Posted at 8:56 pm on 09/03/07
Jay
It’s ’stirling’. The idea for the stirling engine has been around for 100 years or so, I think but has never been able to be made into anything that could actually produce any power to be effective. It would be amazing if Kamen could get that thing to be a reality. If you remember, when all the hoopla was around before the Segway came out, some people were hoping for a stirling engine, as was I.
Posted at 10:25 am on 09/13/07
DAN
Dean Kamen is an American inventor , born in New York !