What is the food/stirling system?

The bowl/stirling system is a source of renewable energy that generates power with parabolically arranged mirrors to reflect sunlight to a small focal receiver, thus heating the gas chamber connected to the piston and driving shaft. The drive shaft is driven by a generator that produces electricity to be distributed to the grid. The bowls/stirling systems are commonly called solar thermal electrical systems that distinguish them from conventional solar panels. The dishes systems are mounted on motorized pedestals programmed to ensure that the mirrors continue to face the sun throughout the day. A solar bowl that is simply a parabolic mirror or a set of mirrors, and a Stirling engine, a closed cycle engine that works quietly using any heat source. The efficiency for Stirling Engine approaches maximum theoretical efficiency for any engine, known technically as the efficiency of the Carnot cycle. The alternating cycle of heating/cooling ensures that there is aconstant power supply of chilled gas, which is heated by the source of thermal energy. Because there is no exhaust in the Stirling engine, they are ideal for use for secret vehicles such as submarines. Because stirling engines can produce electricity using any thermal energy sources, bowls/stirling systems sometimes use burning to generate heat during the night when no sun rays are available.

Stirling engine was patented by Scottish Minister Robert Stirling 27 September 1816, although the engine was not used in serious applications until the turn of the century. A typical food/stirlingm system today brings kW energy per square meter used mirror. At the end of 2004, Sandia National Laboratories built in cooperation with Stirling Energy Systems, Inc. A small prototype power plant/power plant that produces enough electricity to power more than 40 houses. Prototype devices standAlmost $ 1 million, but scientists say that once in production of similar size plants could only cost their third costs, which would be competitive bowls/stirling systems with conventional electricity -generation systems.