Clearly, there are many places where diesel is king or gas-turbine is king, or IC engines will win, but there are many places in the world where, as we've seen, they just won't do the job. The modern version of the Stirling engine has some very, very attractive characteristics, and we're trying to optimize it for some of those applications.

We're working on ways to make potable water from polluted water, whether it has organics in it or salt from the ocean, at very low energy input.

I've spent quite a bit of time working on wind turbines and exploring control systems and photovoltaic and integration system.

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