The AC Whispergen is a Combined Heat & Power (CHP) generator for public consumption -- it is mounted in the home, and generates steam-heat (for radiator-heated buildings), and electricity for powering appliances and such. At its core: a Stirling heat engine, those magical closed-system hot-air engines that run on pretty much anything that burns. Here in the US, people grouse over how high burnables like oil and gas cost, without considering how inefficient electricity is at heating, so these probably will have most of their application in places in the US without easy access to the power grid. Granted, since it involves burning it's not as 'green' as most off-the-grid people would like, but I'd bet there's a market for lake cabins, rural farms, and deep-rural businesses who won't have to rely on the poor connectibility of those areas. Sadly, Whisper Tech is a UK-focused company; the US is getting in on it, but on a industrial-scale and they don't talk about the poorly-scaling Stirling engine much.
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