The stirling is obviously costly in terms of set up (control and feedback basically) it however has significant benefits over the medium to long term because of the fact that simply put, the diesel thermal uses fuel while the solar thermal uses the sun. <br>
Additionally, diesel thermal can run all night while the stirling will run for say 8 hours. <br><br>If you consider storage, peak usage and cost of consumables, over a period of about ten years with a steady 10KW+ power consumption, the tide rapidly shifts. <br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 6:46 PM, Dennis Kioko <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:dmbuvi@gmail.com">dmbuvi@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
How costly is this compared to a diesel thermal station that we seem to love?
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