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Robert Liden, EVP and General Manager at Stirling Energy Systems

A recent Solar World article featured an interview with Robert Liden, Executive Vice President and General Manager at Stirling Energy Systems, based in Phoenix, Arizona, in which he talked in detail about the generation of electricity using a 21st century implementation of principles first discussed in the early 19th century for the conversion of heat into useable power.

You can listen to that discussion with Mr. Liden by clicking here.

Bob Liden returned today to Solar World to answer some additional questions about the operations of his company's solar energy generating products.

Among the points discussed in this second interview are ones comparing the use of Stirling engines to make electricity with the use of photovoltaics for that purpose; the relative merits of building vast "solar farms" in the desert versus putting Stirling engines in backyards and neighborhoods; the potential use of Stirling engines to generate electricity in remote, "off-the-gird" locations and the synergy of such deployments with the provision of wireless Internet access; the replacement or significant supplementation of fossil fuels by using solar electricity to produce hydrogen for transportation by electrolysis of water; and the possibility of powering significant portions of North America and the world through the construction of additional installations similar to the one recently contracted from Stirling Energy Systems by Southern California Edison in the Mohave Desert in other desert areas around the world.

You can listen to this second conversation with Bob Liden at Stirling Energy Systems by clicking here.