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A Terminátor, fa... akarom mondani Stirling motor

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Cut-away diagram of a rhombic drive beta configuration Stirling engine design:

  • Pink – Hot cylinder wall
  • Dark grey – Cold cylinder wall (with coolant inlet and outlet pipes in yellow)
  • Dark green – Thermal insulation separating the two cylinder ends
  • Light green – Displacer piston
  • Dark blue – Power piston
  • Light blue – Linkage crank and flywheels
Not shown: Heat source and heat sinks. In this design the displacer piston is constructed without a purpose-built regenerator.