[gnomic]

What amazes me is that there is tons of research, but lots of room for non-scientists (engineers, hobbyists) to experiment and still learn things. One of the things I did when narrowing down the field of projects I wanted to focus on was apply TRIZ to the variables. Thermoacoustics (TA) has a lot of variations that haven't been fully tried. A lot of the focus is on higher cooling efficiencies, but my focus is on lower power inputs and scaling up (i.e. brute force) the effect for a greener solution. If people can build and sell wine coolers that use grossly inefficient pelter chips, then I think there is a market for low-tech TA coolers.