ABOUT RAGNAROK ENGINEERING

Non‑Electric Technology in Harmony with Nature.

It has been a long journey to get here and not in a straight line — ideas can only emerge and incubate where and when they can.   All the reasons behind the project with realistically what is open to be achieved.   The way forward was found to be in Gender, the balance between male and female energies; androgynous.   Seeing this as a profound quality rather than a problem.   This lead to the Philosophical Concept that underpins the whole project, the engineering change in direction. – Philosophical Engineering

Our position is that the contemporary world has made itself very vulnerable to collapse as much is wrong, and getting worse. Besides the vulnerability issues there are also sustainability issues, but the inertia and greed forces within society far exceed the calls to reform. — So the direction in which engineers themselves push technological boundaries needs to radically change. — 'Hard Change' is still going to happen to society, but it's 'How' we go through it that matters!

From this philosophical concept, a specific embodiment in the form of an air‑cycle heat pump was designed, then an experimental model made in a home workshop (above photo). The design was further improved, the workshop capacity stretched, and a larger Mk2 prototype built.   Prototype development continues.

The core design is presented as open-source, though collaboration with partners is invited to develop the project and its derivatives into production.

The project's modest beginnings do not reflect the magnitude of its importance, only the of obliviousness of our mesmerized technological society to real world inevitably.

Yin and Yang needs balance, so in a world dominated by Yang, we need more Yin.

Design Engineer  J. M. Boardman

   "Different is – Different does"