{"id":214,"date":"2008-11-17T23:44:51","date_gmt":"2008-11-18T06:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/?p=214"},"modified":"2009-11-16T13:55:21","modified_gmt":"2009-11-16T20:55:21","slug":"dean-kamens-electricstirling-hybrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/17\/dean-kamens-electricstirling-hybrid\/","title":{"rendered":"Dean Kamen's Electric\/Stirling Hybrid"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dean Kamen<\/a>, inventor and entrepreneur, has pieced together a hybrid that uses electric battery power for the drive train, and a Stirling engine for heat and defogging. In a pinch, the Stirling engine can also be used to recharge the battery. Read the whole story<\/a> at UnionLeader.com (See Also: Dean Kamen's Deka Revolt Electric Car Runs on Any Fuel<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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And check out this TedTalk from 2002. Kamen discusses the Stirling engine and it's applications for water purifying and power production in poverty zones.
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And here's a Kamen TedTalk video where he discusses development of a prosthetic arm\/hand that can pick up a raisin.<\/p>\n

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See Also: Esquire's How Dean Kamen's Magical Water Machine Could Save the World<\/a>.
\nSee Also: Telegraph's Dean Kamen: part man, part machine<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Dean Kamen, inventor and entrepreneur, has pieced together a hybrid that uses electric battery power for the drive train, and a Stirling engine for heat and defogging. In a pinch, the Stirling engine can also be used to recharge the battery. Read the whole story at UnionLeader.com (See Also: Dean Kamen's Deka Revolt Electric Car … Continue reading \"Dean Kamen's Electric\/Stirling Hybrid\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[245,201,246,7,244,224,247],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-john","tag-dean-kamen","tag-energy","tag-hybrid","tag-peak-oil","tag-stirling-engine","tag-sustainability","tag-ted-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":38,"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243,"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions\/243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}