Stirling Engine Renewable Energy Technology
A Stirling engine built by a young Marseille resident, Patrick Raspino
September 23, 2005
Saturday, seven o'clock. I'm tired. My eyes are burning from staring at this screen. When will I finish this GESTO report?
But, well, how can you remain indifferent to such an email?
Hello,
My name is Patrick Leaky, I had the pleasure of meeting you at the observatory in Marseille during a "Friday" evening, in May I think, I don't remember anymore. I just wanted to send you this email so that you could see a model of a Stirling engine, out of pride or am I, despite myself, a chauvinist of my own world, Marseille. I won't bother you any longer, here is the link, I finished it today, so think about the emotion !!!!
Hello,
My name is Patrick Leaky, I had the pleasure of meeting you at the observatory in Marseille during a "Friday" evening, in May I think, I don't remember anymore. I just wanted to send you this email so that you could see a model of a Stirling engine, out of pride or am I, despite myself, a chauvinist of my own world, Marseille. I won't bother you any longer, here is the link, I finished it today, so think about the emotion !!!!
In fact, he admits to being Patrick Raspino. Twenty-eight years old, a senior technician in the biomedical field. His creation is certainly a rather nice piece of micromechanics.
You will, like me, click on the link and watch his video.
As Christophe Tardy's father told me eight days ago:
*- There are dreamers and those who realize their dreams. It has nothing to do with it. *
I agree with him. This Patrick seems to be of the breed of great dreamers, not of the "it's just a matter of - we need to"
It would be good to buy a one square meter Fresnel lens. Americans sell them. Then couple the two by powering the whole thing, with a control system based on photoelectric cells, so that the light is always focused on the hot spot of his engine. Technically, it's not that difficult.
Better yet: who will make a Fresnel mirror with machined parts, then assemble and silver them? Who will sponsor the design of a mold for the first one square meter micro Fresnel mirror?
Who will consider a more ambitious project?
Which artist will be interested in what is a real sculpture of the modern era? Who will provide the old sewing machine of Grandmother, which would then be powered by solar energy, with the sequence:
Solar energy - engine - Stirling - Dynamo - Sewing machine
This thing is tiny, but the concept is fabulous. You saw that the Americans (Kirkland, in Nevada, at the Sandia laboratories) had developed units producing 20 kilowatts each. People need to be informed, at a time when France is about to recklessly waste ten billion euros on this nonsense called ITER, which won't work. I will speak on this subject on Radio-Grenouille on September 30th, starting at 8:30 PM, at the school of Fine Arts in Aix-en-Provence, Emile Tavan street, near the Sextius course (I was a teacher there in sculpture). I asked Patrick to be there, with his machine and his lighter. Even if it's not television. People from ITER should be there. Jean-Louis Millet and Jean-Claude Biberian (solid state physics, Marseille) too.
Free access. You are welcome. It might be lively.
This kid is moving. What are you waiting for to move as well? Wait for the sky to fall on your head?
leaky 
free.fr
**A good address to understand the principle of Stirling engines: **
http://www.moteurstirling.com/index.htm
**In Europe, the Germans are leading in industrial implementations: **
http://www.stirling-engine.de/engl/index.html
Dream is the only thing that matters
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