Existing literature focuses on the alleged merits of the Stirling engine. Certainly, these virtues are indeed latent but, decades on, are yet to be fully realised. This is despite the fact that Stirling, and other closed-cycle prime-movers offer a genuine contribution to an ultra-low carbon economy. In contrast with solar panels, the initial manufacture of Stirling engines makes no demands on scarce or exotic raw materials. Further, calculation of embodied carbon per kWh favours the Stirling engine by a wide margin. C02 emissions of an installed solar-energised Stirling are zero.The market penetration of Stirling engines to date has never matched the potential claimed on the subject and rational explanations have not been provided to explain this anomaly. Stirling and Thermal-lag Engines is the first text on the subject to identify, quantify, and address the shortcomings of the genre as part of an overdue approach of cutting the remedial measures needed to make up lost time in addressing climate change. By identifying and quantifying the Achilles Heel of every embodiment of the Stirling engine working principle since its first prototype in 1818, this book offers a design embodying a remedy costed in detail for environmental impact. In the process, a disparate, objective body of technical opinion is coerced into something approaching a coherent design methodology.The sun does not always shine. But neither will the oil always flow. This new title offers an entré e to technology appropriate to the twenty-first century.Key Features• Identifies and rectifies a fundamental misunderstanding in the ’bible’ on heat exchange (on which NASA subcontractors rely for heat transfer and flow friction correlations)• Dynamic Similarity is one of the most valuable analytical tools of physics and engineering. This author has been — and remains — alone in mobilising it to the task at issue• Numerical algorithms used in the new title are those tried and tested over decades in other long-established disciplines• The first account to take account of the large cache of relevant experimental and theoretical work on compressible flow through regenerator materials (wire screens)• Existing manufacturing resources cannot be re-directed to the manufacture of p-v panels but can mass-produce components for Stirling engines

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