Heat of your hand Stirling Engine
This ultra low temperature-differential Stirling Engine will actually run on the heat of your hand! Place this beautiful precision engine on any warm surface and within a few minutes it's chugging away. The engine runs whenever the temperatures of the top and bottom plates differ by more than about 10 degrees Celsius. Its upper black aluminum plate actually absorbs enough heat in direct sunshine to run on solar power. You can also try a cup of hot coffee, or even your computer monitor! By placing the engine on some ice cubes, it is even possible to drive the engine by the heat of the surrounding air in the room.
This is a great thermodynamic demonstration of air pressure change due to alternate heating and cooling. The main chamber has perspex sides, which allow you to see what is happening inside. When the large foam displacer (it is not a piston) moves up, the air is then in contact with the lower (warmer) plate, and the air expands. This drives the small piston in the centre of the top plate upwards. The displacer then moves down, causing the air to now be in contact with the upper (colder) plate. The air now cools and contracts, which causes the small piston to move down. As long as there is a temperature differential of over 10 degrees, your Stirling Engine will keep going!
This is not a kit - it comes fully assembled and ready to go.
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Vampire diagnostic device! You know they're dead when it spins in reverse!
@Ashish-er4kz
3 жыл бұрын
Wat
@andreiy3177
3 жыл бұрын
@@Ashish-er4kz Vampires are known to have cold bodies I think
@P2Tmedia
3 жыл бұрын
I want a friendly Vampire
@christianandersen4749
3 жыл бұрын
Or you simply feel their hand
@proxy90909
3 жыл бұрын
@@christianandersen4749 That be kinda gae tho
I want one that have a fan on top instead of a reel.
@deluksic
10 жыл бұрын
probably too gentle to actually push air..
@TheDreamm21
10 жыл бұрын
David Lukšić only if you put on hand what about on a stove??
@Treblaine
10 жыл бұрын
TheDreameR Or unplug the stove and plug in a conventional electric fan. But that's no fun I suppose.
@TheaDragonSpirit
9 жыл бұрын
Steam Engine.
@tannerarmstrong1496
9 жыл бұрын
FuckYouGooglePlus Actually the generator takes chemical energy, converts it into mechanical energy, then into electric energy. Then the electric fan would convert the electric energy back to mechanical energy. A combustion engine connected to a fan would only need to convert from chemical to mechanical. Theoretically, it should be more efficient than using a gas generator.
0:40 Me when trying to explain something in front of the class
@Kenny.ymir1
3 жыл бұрын
lol fr i couldn't understand what he was saying
@6663000
3 жыл бұрын
It's looks like a piston, but it's actually a little air displacer.
@stevethea5250
3 жыл бұрын
@@Kenny.ymir1 "fispjacerbutifslklikairdspnr"
@johnmartinez7440
3 жыл бұрын
I don't get it. Did people struggle to understand that?
@Boojyman
3 жыл бұрын
I thought it was stroke
Put this on a CPU and cool it with the energy generated
@garydos000
3 жыл бұрын
It sounds like an amazing idea but would it be reliable enough?
@candypg1
3 жыл бұрын
This wouldn’t work, but fun idea
@wealthmaster69
3 жыл бұрын
It would create a black hole!!!
@kenan_allaham
3 жыл бұрын
😳 u r right
@suleymanbabak1973
3 жыл бұрын
the wheel should be shaped like a fan. But it wouldn't have enough force to pull away the required quantity of air to cool the cpu efficiently
put it in the freezer and then hold it
@mettju_csky3105
5 жыл бұрын
Or just dont do this
@atomicwinter31
3 жыл бұрын
*freezes the stirling engine to my hand* "ok now what"
@see7king960
3 жыл бұрын
Or warm up your hands with warm water
@DontMessWithCaesar
3 жыл бұрын
@Christopher Oliver N E R D
@neilbautista9692
3 жыл бұрын
@@DontMessWithCaesar idiot.
This got recommended to me after 9 years and still, this is impressive.
@mediocreatbest_
3 жыл бұрын
Yuri best girl
@nicklasveva
3 жыл бұрын
Yes, because thousand year old books aren't impressive in any way. We all know that everything old is boring.
@spoopyscaryskelebones3846
3 жыл бұрын
@@nicklasveva dumbass, he meant it’s not outdated or anything.
@owenjaworski418
3 жыл бұрын
Same
@theelevatedone1630
3 жыл бұрын
same
Imagine attaching the engine to a very small toy/figurine like an animated character. Holding it's "podium" would make it move or dance. That would be awesome :D
@Darakkis
3 жыл бұрын
Takes a lot of force to move a figurine
@insertname8811
3 жыл бұрын
@@Darakkis maybe make the figurine out of lightweight but complex origami so that it isn’t as fragile as just paper
@spoopyscaryskelebones3846
3 жыл бұрын
That would truly be awesome :)
@chrisrichfield8906
3 жыл бұрын
Or maybe like pictures on the blades with only one transluscent section so it's like a heat powered gif.
This man has the best collection ever.
Summer: **comes** Him: *UNLIMITED POWEEER*
I never get tired of seeing Stirling engines running
@caturlifelive
3 жыл бұрын
how about now ?
@MrDogfish83
3 жыл бұрын
@@caturlifelive shhh, he's sleeping!
@caturlifelive
3 жыл бұрын
@@MrDogfish83 Okay uncle
I can’t imagine being able to put so little effort into mumbling words. He must be able to conserve so much energy.
@mcfixer9503
3 жыл бұрын
he puts all the energy into his hands to heat them
@jordanlevitt-bartoletti3610
3 жыл бұрын
Lol my thoughts exactly
I keep getting videos from this guy recommended to me and I enjoy it. He seems so nice
My hands are always so cold the table would probably make it move more tbh
@redrainer
3 жыл бұрын
You should go to a doctor then. Cause that’s not normal
@Torquebeast650
3 жыл бұрын
Same here Hands and feet always very cold :(
@mynameismax3334
3 жыл бұрын
Same but it's my nose
@cincau3243
3 жыл бұрын
Or maybe you're a vampire
@ponponpatapon9670
3 жыл бұрын
@@redrainer wait i've been like this all my life :flushed:
You're new here, I take it. It's ok, give it some time. It NEVER gets old :)
@needs_more_dakka5774
3 жыл бұрын
Damn. You right. I'm still not sick of it.
@zootopiaondvd8081
3 жыл бұрын
never gets old. granted im still watching the vid for the first time but it hasnt gotten old yet
@702_ninja7
3 жыл бұрын
This aged well
@Lee-jt4hz
3 жыл бұрын
Why are we replying on a 7 year old comment
@spoopyscaryskelebones3846
3 жыл бұрын
@@Lee-jt4hz why not? :)
This is so COOL, even after 9 years
2 people must be Cold blooded
@rjwaters3
10 жыл бұрын
***** but a cold blooded person takes their body temp from the area around them, as such no temp difference
@jasmonkz
10 жыл бұрын
rjwaters3 yea
@MrPryor94
10 жыл бұрын
Vampires!
@tacomeme429
9 жыл бұрын
Now 6
This is incredible really. I'd absolutely love a fan like that. This stuff seems like it has a lot of potential in the future to help a lot of people.
@fuckyougoogleplus8667
9 жыл бұрын
IT would help a lot of people simple enjoy the thought of it. That's it. If you are thinking in terms of helping them make electricity, then no.
@cookiewizard1337
9 жыл бұрын
i like your name :D xDDD
@edgardox.feliciano3127
3 жыл бұрын
@@fuckyougoogleplus8667 how about just cooling them by using it as a fan in 100 degree heat
@TheBestAsbestos13
3 жыл бұрын
We have a similar device at the cabin. It's made of iron so you put it on top of the wood burning stove and the temperature difference makes the fan spin so it circulates the heat a little faster.
@dadaniel2k11
3 жыл бұрын
@@edgardox.feliciano3127 so you want to use a bunch of energy to cool it while it's super hot outside and then waste most of the energy you used to power a fan that might blow for maybe a minute at an incredibly low speed? Just use an electrical fan bro.
love his choice of words :D
I like the power piston and displacer con-rod arrangemen, it’s quite unique for a LTD Stirling Engine.
Imagen in the middle of summer: you're dying of heat, you have this with a fan, and it's going hyper speed cuz of how hot you are
@madjoemak
3 жыл бұрын
But the outside temp is also hot so it probably wouldn't spin any faster
Use one of those to cool down electronics? For example, use the heat generated from a aprocessor to run a fan that cools the processor down.
@JFrameMan
10 жыл бұрын
If you can get it to run at very fast speeds and cost less than or equal to regular fans (after energy usage over 5 years added). The maximum rpm anyone's gotten it to run is probably still only a small fraction of what's needed.
@antiHUMANDesigns
10 жыл бұрын
JFrame Yeah, the cost and lifetime may be an issue, but apart from that, it's free. But then again, new graphics cards have a similar system using a vapor chamber.
@cdoublejj
10 жыл бұрын
you know that might not be half bad idea.
@antiHUMANDesigns
10 жыл бұрын
cdoublejj Well, I also realized that they use a similar idea in newer gfx cards. A vapor chamber. It's not mechanical, and that's even better. Of course, there's still alot of heat left to drive a sterling engine.
@cdoublejj
10 жыл бұрын
antiHUMANDesigns look up "coolclouds" they are about to release some sort of combined heatpipe, aircooled,water cooled synergistic cooler.
0:40 What??
@telephonebear21
7 жыл бұрын
This little displacer here. It looks like a piston, but it's actually just an air displacer.
@ryanbierman624
4 жыл бұрын
Hes gone into maximum overdrive
@namr1174
4 жыл бұрын
@Kian macatuno M A X I M U M O V E R D R I V E
@kaicenatrayclipz
3 жыл бұрын
By this little displacer whdovnrodmvjdikrifirn air
I can watch this all day lol
Make it into a fan and use it on a hot day.
@aarter2913
9 жыл бұрын
That's ingenious. Why isn't this being funded already?
@ib7566
9 жыл бұрын
User name Because I think the top would get hot too quickly.
@evilplaguedoctor5158
9 жыл бұрын
Smitty Werbenjagermanjenson google: sterling stove fan
@Hankextreme
9 жыл бұрын
User Name because the blades of the fan would face much higher resistance and would either not spin at all or extremely slow. That is if the heat source remains your hand
@EliteUnion
9 жыл бұрын
Smitty Werbenjagermanjenson It would actually provide less power on a hot day because the temperature difference between your hand and the ambient temperature would be less.
Reminds me of how the Peltier tiles were used to make a hand warmth powered flashlight.
i like this guy. sounds like a true gent.
This is quite remarkable.
Beautiful engineering.. And I love your videos . Thanks 👍☘️🇮🇪
Wow that's actually really impressive!
I am now a fan of this fan
I am part of the movement that is taking this clip to 1M views!
I need that thing. No matter why, I just need it right now
Nice display to keep on your table.
Tim is so cool I am surprised it worked at all.
incredible how much energy we are just radiating all the time. and sterling engines are only around 30% efficient! thousands of practical uses though, what a lovely idea.
KZread recommendation page never make me disappointed
Tim would say.."ohhh my"
I love the way he talks
Need these for cars!
I don’t know why this was recommended to me but it’s still pretty cool
@ 0:40 say what?
@ALCRAN2010
4 жыл бұрын
0.25x speed
Those NAILS
That's quite cool tbh
I came here from Vsauce! :p
@danielbroderick7609
8 жыл бұрын
Me too
@NotaSuspiciousName
8 жыл бұрын
+Saurabh Singh you should link me
@jacobking7471
8 жыл бұрын
I did to but did he have a link?
@oscartaylor8530
8 жыл бұрын
+Jacob King yeah check the description
@monkeyplayer1952
8 жыл бұрын
+Saurabh Singh me too!
so elegant !
Love to watch its gentle wobbling, reminding me of the motion of a jellyfish
it would help in the winter! if you have a wood burning stove you can put one of these on the top with a fan and it will help distribute the heat
@backfire357
3 жыл бұрын
I really like your idea from 7 years ago.
I love watching Stirling egine it relaxes me,
Get someone who praises you the way he does he magnificent engine
ngl that is pretty cool
cool i might need one for my computer
I understood not a word, but it was very interesting
Well, now I understand how The robots in the Matrix need humans as batteries🤔
@d3fury312
3 жыл бұрын
Hold up
@LilSerg2002
3 жыл бұрын
Kindergarden Teacher: "what do you want to be when you grow up?" Student: "i wanna be a battery when I grow up!"
This would make for the perfect fan
im wondering if they could make ti to where you can put it on the hot pavement and use it to power a fan outside? for that matter can this method be used to harvest geothermal energy?
Get whole bunch of those, get some laptops, place them, place those on the most heating place of your laptop, start up a lan party like this. Eventually make a in-game gold farm and pay people for farming gold in games. People farming in-game money + possibility of making energy out of this + cooling down yourself by a fan. This is amazing and money - providing.
@dadaniel2k11
3 жыл бұрын
It will overheat the computers and make you waste more energy...
Bro it's satisfying 😂
Absolute beauty indeed
Just got yourself a subscription
Always wanted to know about this, I've seen this in campers.
Put one of these on top of a heated cable boxes, some metal blocks on top and it will run even faster
These technologies is the start of our future
Looks nice. I want one.
@tacomeme429
9 жыл бұрын
It might be useful
Does this Stirling Engine have a Displacer? It is hard to tell. Are all Sterlings equipped with such?
Looks amazing. the link didn't work, was hoping it would be a link for purchase. how much do these cost?
Thanks
Amazing how sensitive it is
Since it's caused by the differents in heat, if u were to put it on ur hand in a walk in freezer would that make it spin faster?
Superb!
should be a fan.
It doesn't just work on heat, it works on heat difference. You'd need one side of the engine to be hot (like in a hot room) and the other side to be cool.
I want to put the bottom above the fire and a have little liquid nitrogen filled tray on the top part.
@mercellustouthang6663
8 жыл бұрын
How interesting that would be,i think i would spin very fast
Totally amazing
A fan that warms you😂
I need this as a fan during summer so if my hand is warm then I have a mini portable fan
Does it run faster, the warmer your hand is?
btw this is a Beta-configuration stirling engine, which means that in a single cylinder there is both a piston and a displacer
Surely you can spin it in any direction and it will work?
does the number of flywheel effect its efficiency?
I'm probably gonna get this in 3-D print a fan blade for it
I really loved your design. First of all thank you for sharing such nice things. May I have request technical drawings of the system and its each component. Im planning to work on this subject for as my graduation project. If you share the technical drawings of your succesful engine, I will gain lots of time to improve and add something new to your system with the idea to develop it. This is not a commecial aim. It is only for my graduation project by adding something which was not done before.
u got a realy hot hand
Perpetual Motion.
a bigger one for server rooms that can be put on top of a server rack
@TheaDragonSpirit
9 жыл бұрын
Eventually the cold plate would get as warm as the servers and it would stop working.
@123crafter123
9 жыл бұрын
TheaDragonSpirit that can be countered
@Eagles_Eye
8 жыл бұрын
+Juustohöylä yow dogggg, i heard you liked cooling down things so i made a thing that can cool down things but you need to cool the thing down with a cool down thing.
Don't know why it's in my feed now but looks great for my laptop which runs like a toaster.
I am 30,000th viewer sorry it had to be done. Great videos :)
so if you put ice on the top would it spin faster?
I finally have the final ingredient to my human energy extractor
i could see a use for this by putting it on the hot pavement and pointing at yourself that is in the shade during a hot summer day, that is if it had a fan on it
Put it on a mi phone... Super fan
This kinda reminds of the thing in crit role’s call of cthulhu one shot where they use a heating object to make the thing spin.
H, did you feel your hand getting cooler as it drew heat from it?
We need massive ones to power cities
what if ice is placed below the lower plate. would it rotate?
I threw this machine to furnace now the whole house is flying
Hook this up to one of those generators that you need to spin and you got yourself a generator that doesn't harm the environment
What would it be like after a work out
I hope my cat videos show up randomly in people’s feeds, in the future, like your videos have in mine, lol. 🐈⬛
Just got mine from Grand Illusions. It's a newer version than this, beautifully made :-) Really pleased with it.
Nice