This Stirling engineW - developed by W - uses any heat source to produce electricity. It is about the size of a washing machine and produces 1 kW.

Iqbal Quadir, the founder of W, conducted a six-month field trial, ending in September 2005. "This is a reliable machine," he says.

Kamen’s goal is to produce machines that cost $1,000 to $2,000 each. Under the Grameen model, they would be owned by entrepreneurs (funded by microcredit from the W). Quadir sees this as a better model than a single large power plant, in that it creates many entrepreneurs.

Kamen thinks the waste heat of this device could be used to operate his other invention, the Slingshot water purifier.

Questions:

  • What is the latest news on the technology and the use of it with the Grameen model?[expansion needed]
(Google News for Kamen + Stirling - http://news.google.com/news?q=kamen+stirling )

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