He also invented the internal insulin pump, a portable dialysis machine, and dozens of others items used daily.
He is an inventor in the style of Edison, and will likely succeed where others have failed if his patents can be believed. A truly workable Stirling engine would revolutionize the world. (That word gets used way too often, but it’s true in this case)
“A truly workable Stirling engine would revolutionize the world.”
That’s putting it lightly. If you could replace all current US gasoline consumption with Stirling engines at 80% efficiency, you could displace massive amounts of fuel. How massive?
The US currently consumes about 1.4 billion liters of gasoline per day. The rest of the world combined consumes about 1.225 billion liters per day. Replacing just the US fleet would reduce consumption by over 1 billion liters per day.
In other words, you could reduce gasoline demand in the US by 75%, and worldwide demand by 40%.
I’m not saying it will happen, or anytime soon... but that is the theoretical magnitude of the shift...