Modern Steam Power

Open Hardware Summit Report

Here is a report from Mark Norton, who presented the OSE Steam Engine Project at the Open Hardware Summit 2011:   I attended the Open Hardware Summit at the New York Hall of Science located on site of the 1964 World Fair site in Queens, New York...

Distributed Generation

Our recent developments in steam power are exciting. We are committing to the first prototype of a stationary, distributed power generator. This is our high-appropriate technology route to biomass-based power systems, while higher tech, proprietary systems...

Land Steam Record

Several people at the Steam Automobile Club of America meeting are working on the Land Steam Record – a race for the top speed in a steam car. The current record is 148 mph, set in 2009 by the British. Here is an interview with Chuk Williams, lead...

Cyclone Technologies

Modern steam power is here. We met Harry Schoell – lead technical developer from Cyclone Technologies – as one of the many experts at the Steam Automobile Club of America Meeting. Cyclone Technologies appears to have the world’s first modern...

Steam Engine Electric Generator

We just got back from the 2010 Steam Automobile Club of America (SACA) meeting. I presented a brief talk on Open Source Ecology’s proposal for the scalable, steam-powered, electrical generator that we discussed in a former post. This talk puts the...