A power generator may include a digital programmable governor, a plurality of power modules. The power modules have working fluid including compound gas and a magneto-responsive liquid column disposed therein, a thermal generator capable of adding heat to the working fluid, one Or more cooling exchangers configured to remove heat from the working fluid, at sets of electro-hydro-dynamic actuators, and a plurality of bidirectional turbines. The sets of electro-hydro-dynamic actuators are disposed proximate to the power modules, responsive to control of the digital programmable governor and in association with a thermal cycle of adding heat to and removing heat from the working fluid, provide influence to drive reciprocal flows of the working fluid through the power modules. The bi-directional turbines are disposed to receive the reciprocal flows and perform a kinematically independent conversion of the operating medium reciprocal flows to rotary motion power output.