Stirling engine efficiency?

Hi Veeky Forums, so, im gonna study organic food production and in arround 3-4 years im buying some land to go live in, the idea is to be as self-sufficient as possible.

So i recently found out about sterling engines, and i wanted to know how much power can i put out of it, if i get somethin with a small river or something, i'd have covered the cold side, and i could connect it to my chimney, or get some solar reflectors to heat it up.

do you guys know how i could figure out how much power can i output from it?

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It's a couple of isochores and isotherms. It shouldn't be too hard to figure out the efficiency once you know the temperature of the water and the hot side. Look up the equation or derive it yourself. I'm too lazy and disinterested to do it for you. Once you figure out the work you can get out of it, you can estimate the power. All of this is theoretical though, so keep that in mind and don't be shocked when you actually get way less than you estimate.

There are too many variables to tell you with confidence how much energy output you will get with a DIY Stirling engine. One weak link in your setup will sap power from the entire system. The same goes with all DIY power setups, but more so with a Stirling engine since they are rarer than most DIY power systems.

Suffice it to say, yes you can make a large Stirling engine system that can power your house, via solar. I'm talking upwards of 10kw. However, stuff like that would be rather expensive and require skills/knowledge you will need to hone over a few years to get it right.

A simple 1kw solar Stirling engine system would be much easier to make in short term with reduce budget. You will need to study the different types of Stirling engines too to see which one fits your needs the best (Alpha/Beta). You may even want to couple it with something else to utilize waste heat (water heater for instance).

Essentially, you can get as much power out of it as you have skills, knowledge, and resources to make it. Got any old 12-feet diameter satellite dishes handy?

where could i find what calculations should i do, if its heavy maths its no prob couse i can get my sister to do it then :D

yeah i mean, ill have some free time and some expendable money to work with, i can always start small and then get the most out of it. also, im gonna have a chimney that will be on alot of the time, so i could also get heat from there (including solar if i can or when the time comes)

also, id still be connected to the grid, the point is just to make myself the most self-sufficient as i can, but im not gonna go live in a cave kek

Don't worry about much math at all beyond addition for volts, amps, and watts.

Make a small one just to understand how they work. Make it run a small DC toy motor/servo to light some LEDs and recharge some AA batteries. Scale it up from there with a car alternator.

>Scale it up

yeah of course, but im just thinking foward to see if that'd be a viable way of gettin power or not, as i said im still 3-4 years from just moving there, so yeah just daydreamin here, but if its really possible i could get somewhere with a river to cool the engine and see what to heat it with.
Ill also have some industrial cannabis(to eat the flowers) and those grow like 5-6 meters in like a fuckin year or so, so i could use that as fuel, especcialy on the winter when im gonna get my ass as warm as i can with a homefire, but again, thats why i'd like to know how viable an option is it, to think in advance to my situation, tho as i said theres still alot of time
but since im interested now, i might as well try to learn about it.

Indeed

Normally, viable ways of making power are determined by where you live and the resources you have. Live near a river, use hydro. Live near the ocean, use wind/wave. Live in an arid equatorial desert, use wind/solar. So on and so forth.

hydro? wouldnt that eat up alot of terrirory? remember im getting a farm, imma need space for plants n shit, its not gonna be that large a terrain, and i want to get the most of it.