External Combustion Engine?

[Eighteeteewhy]

I got asked the other day "So, if cars use internal combustion engines, is there such thing as external combustion engines. And if so what uses them?"

I thunk about it and guessed that a steam engine is an external combustion engine. Was I right, or is there even such a thing?

Over to you...

[thinfourth2]

Steam engines which range from the cute things that make chuff chuff noises to the turbines at a power station

[DanielC4GP]

Yes steam is one, a Stirling engine is another.

[SystemParanoia]

330 glorious HP

[Hudson]

The Ford Pinto used to have one...

[1point7bar]

SystemParanoia said:

330 glorious HP

Wouldn't it be great if they'd done it for wood chips in the fuel tank (auger fuel pipe)

[Ozzie Osmond]

Nuclear = external, provided you're comfortable with the definition of combustion!

[Zwolf]

Hudson said:

The Ford Pinto used to have one...