Solar Powered Stirling Engine - Gyroscope.com

Chlorophyll, yeah, if we were plants :D

Chlorophyll!
Umm... we all sorta run on solar power.

No, a fresnel lens would not make the putput larger than the input. It would allow the machine to capture more energy by focusing an area larger than a parabola, onto the parabola, and then onto whatever Mr Gyroscopes is using to collect the energy

If you wear braces, we can plug you in and run you off solar power too :D
Seriously though, how do you make a person run on solar power?

NerdS! your mom runs off of my solar power. i have braces.

yer andr if you can make it go fastre rmp's itll do beter.

Use a fensen lens the output would be 10+ times the heat.

if you polish the coletor to a mirer shim an have it the coletor you well bost the speed of the engien

GREAT

search "Concentratore solare da parabola satellitare" an experiment of italian student in 2006.

Have you ever tried sticking some magnets on the wheels and setting a coil to measure power and efficiency for output.

I've seen Stirling Solar's idea, but I would like to see stuff like this on everyone's roof.

wouldn't you get more heat if the there was blackness at the focal point? slick, otherwise.

rare do i see such energy conversion so direct.... excellent work.

not a panel, its a parabolic reflector like on a satelite dish, it collects and focuses the sunlight to put it on a tiny spot

it is the heat you are utilising here correct? if so, then why not use a solar cooker type design instead? it is a simple black box with aluminum inside, covered by glass. they get hot enough to boil water on a sunny day.