{"id":11986,"date":"2014-08-10T08:00:44","date_gmt":"2014-08-10T15:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=11986"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:05:48","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:05:48","slug":"segway-inventor-dean-kamen-thinks-his-new-stirling-engine-will-get-you-off-the-grid-for-under-10k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/segway-inventor-dean-kamen-thinks-his-new-stirling-engine-will-get-you-off-the-grid-for-under-10k","title":{"rendered":"Segway Inventor Dean Kamen Thinks His New Stirling Engine Will Get You Off The Grid For Under $10K"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a class=\"entity_name\" href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/christopherhelman\/\">Christopher Helman<\/a> \u2014 Forbes<\/h3>\n<p><br \/> For the new issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/forbes\/\">Forbes Magazine<\/a> I wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/christopherhelman\/2014\/07\/02\/david-cranes-green-vision-for-carbon-belching-nrg-energy\/\" target=\"_blank\">an article <\/a>about David Crane, the visionary CEO of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/companies\/nrg-energy\/\">NRG Energy<\/a> . When I met Crane for lunch a couple weeks ago, no sooner had we sat down than he began singing the praises of this new contraption he had in his basement. The machine \u2014 which can generate 10 kilowatts of continuous power, fed by Crane\u2019s natural gas line \u2014 is a new iteration of an old creation, the Stirling engine. This version, called the Beacon 10, was created after a decade of engineering by famed inventor Dean Kamen.<\/p>\n<p>I caught up with Kamen (who is best known for creating the Segway scooter) over the phone last week to ask him about the device. \u201cWe\u2019ve turned his basement into an extension of our laboratory,\u201d said Kamen. \u201cIt\u2019s certainly not a machine made for the typical home, but he has a gigantic swimming pool and a huge house.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/christopherhelman\/2014\/07\/02\/dean-kamen-thinks-his-new-stirling-engine-could-power-the-world\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Helman \u2014 Forbes For the new issue of Forbes Magazine I wrote an article about David Crane, the visionary CEO of NRG Energy . When I met Crane for lunch a couple weeks ago, no sooner had we sat down than he began singing the praises of this new contraption he had in his [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11986"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64927,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11986\/revisions\/64927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}