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Don't know if anyone has thought about this but just a concept could you pump the hot liquid from your loop over a steirling engines that have a fanblade output shaft to pump air through the rad? Any would this not be an epic looking steampunk design.

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you wont get even close to enough airflow or static pressure, the temperature difference between the air and fluid is generally less than 20c

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The fluid in a watercooling loop isn't even close to hot enough.

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4 minutes ago, Enderman said:

The fluid in a watercooling loop isn't even close to hot enough.

I thought steirling engines don't need much, just more then ambient temperature.

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7 minutes ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

you wont get even close to enough airflow or static pressure, the temperature difference between the air and fluid is generally less than 20c

Well shoot, this idea sounds so fun too

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4 minutes ago, The_Dentist said:

I thought steirling engines don't need much, just more then ambient temperature.

there are ones that will move when you just put them in your hand, but those move slow as hell and dont really have any torque beyond whats required to overcome the internal fricion

 

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13 minutes ago, The_Dentist said:

I thought steirling engines don't need much, just more then ambient temperature.

You might want to try doing some basic calculations on how much energy you can get out of it...

Then you might realize how ridiculous your idea is.

 

There are some mini stirling engines you can buy for a few hundred dollars that have really low friction and will actually run off of the heat from something hot like hot water in a thermos or cup.

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They need hot water, like close to boiling, and the amount of energy they produce is only enough to move the piston up and down so that you can see it.

Not anywhere near enough energy to move huge 120mm+ fan blades at hundreds or thousands of rpm.

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I get that it wouldn't really work to cool it, so much as giving the illusion of it. I get steirling engines have very little torque. I'm saying the idea of it sounds amazing to me. Im more interested if it could spin fan blade even. 

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