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Could someone point me to a link or explain in laymen terms how this works and if it can be recreated by a Maker?

JohnnyGTO
I've been researching thermoacoustics on and off for a while but not being a physicist kind of puts a limit to how much I can do on paper.

Here's a link to a page that really made sense to me:

http://www.mit.edu/~howitt/humcool/

I've gotten some information from the following, although you have to register to read the forum and download the papers:

http://www.mecheng.adelaide.edu.au/anvc/thermoacoustics/

You can also buy an "Acoustic Laser" kit from Penn state for $24:

http://www.acs.psu.edu/thermoacoustics/refrigeration/laserdemo.htm

One of the cooler applications for this stuff is in acoustic control. The combustion chamber of a jet engine is a little like the flame in the tube, and it too produces sound. If you can introduce some kind of anti-phase exitation (in the case of some research at Cambridge: pulsing the fuel into the combustion chamber) then you have the potential to make your jet engines a lot quieter. It also makes combustion more even.

Have a look here: http://www-g.eng.cam.ac.uk/energy/acoustics/activecombinstab.html

Great. We can turn global warming around 180 into an ice age.

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