NON-ELECTRIC REVERSIBLE HEAT PUMPS

Developing a wind or water powered Heat Pump that is independent of electricity and also is reversible, thereby providing either heating or cooling.   Based on a thermodynamic air cycle ...Non‑Electric Technology in Harmony with Nature.

What if Ragnarok is the legend of a real event that happened long ago, and will cyclically happen again?  ...there is supporting evidence to suggest this, and that it is connected to solar activity, which is also the real cause of global warming, not the CO₂ hype.   Pollution is always bad, but there are many half‑truths in science now because it is compromised by its funding and narrow scope.

Backup Against Electrical Infrastructure Collapse

Electronics has become a dependency, an addiction, and ever more powerful, but we need to get real. — Electromagnetic radiation is a double edge sword... useful to humanity but also very harmful.   Furthermore, it is solar electrical activity that drives the weather, hence the climate, but severe solar flares could also knock out the power grid and burn electronic devices, including the internet, GPS and vehicle electrics. This is named a "Carrington Event".   Today's society has made itself vulnerable!   ...Everything has foolishly become existentially inter‑dependent and reliant on electronic technology.   So either by natural events or human miscalculation, the whole system seems very likely to collapse.

Ironically, the rush towards electrification with "green" politics has left us even more vulnerable to health issues and solar driven climate change.   ...When the collapse comes, even transport and the means of repair will be down.

Limitations

This design is intended for Rural, Upland and Marine use, and in locations where there is typically sufficient wind.   Its function is to provide single unit heating or cooling.   On days when there is no wind, or too little wind, fuel will still need to be burned, but over time considerably less valuable fuel would be needed.

Ragnarok Engineering Survival Kit – Simple heating or cooling that continues to work without fuel or electricity – movable, modular and adaptable.   Off grid living by choice or compulsion.

The reversible feature of this design is also amenable to development with tidal energy without infrastructure, for house boats!

PHILOSOPHICAL ENGINEERING

    Transition Tools and Technologies

A thoughtful person unconnected to the industry, may well say technology has gone too far now, but this is meaningless feedback to an engineering designer. It is our job to push boundaries with ingenuity, that is what we do.   But what boundaries are we pushing? ...must it be to the periphery we always go, where some have and some haven't, so always there is contention.   We cannot go back, only forward. The infrastructure of the past has gone.   We as a world community have now made ourselves existentially reliant on unstable technologies in a multitude of disciplines: Ecosystems to pharmaceuticals, genetics to electro‑magnetics.   Boundaries have been pushed in diverse directions with little regard to consequence.   The root drivers have often been selfishness, greed, power, arrogance – manifesting now as a very divided world that cares too little about Nature.

So the direction that designers now push the boundary has got to be towards the Holistic Centre.  This is not tweaking the status‑quo, but a completely different philosophy to the engineering direction.   Away from the 'periphery of contention' and towards the Centre. – Materials and technology appropriate for the job in hand, helping as many as possible survive.   Historically civilisations come and go, and ours today is in a very vulnerable position!

Artwork (drawn in SolidWorks) depicting the common Soul journey of all of humanity. The long journey over many lifetimes from the innocent centre out into a multitude of endeavours pushing and striving on the periphery, until as old souls we each begin the journey back towards the holistic centre again, but now in the light of amassed experiences.   This great Soul journey is indeed three dimensional, as there is an axial component of progression of the Soul, perpendicular to our everyday struggles of life.

In time, this change of direction at the periphery will be recognised by many, but for those who can see it, pushing the boundary towards the holistic centre is especially appropriate now.   The Ragnarok project's modest beginnings do not reflect the magnitude of its importance.   A specific project showing a general principle. This will not be an optional reversal in direction.

'Science' can be fudged by leaving out anomalous data, but not Engineering!

Stop trying to prevent 'climate change',
and start thinking how to survive it.
It is mostly a natural solar driven event.
There will be panic ...don't get in the way.

EARTH SPIRIT  Nature can sometimes get very wild, but we must still live in Harmony with her. This is the only way to Survive.  It is an aspect of Yin‑Yang Balance.

Science, Medicine, Agriculture and the 'Green Movement' have all become detached from the Spiritual, then exploited by big business. Alas it is we that suffer, and will suffer more. Electrification is a health disaster.   All deception is bad.

The photos show a small experimental model, the test rig for developing the idea.   The design of the full size machine has a 40 foot (12 metre) high tower, with a 14 foot (4.2 metre) diameter eight-bladed wind turbine.   The experimental device in the photos is all open, but operational machines will have fully enclosed heat pumps.

Insensitive to Electro-Magnetic Turmoil

The Stirling thermodynamic cycle works by compressing and expanding a fixed quantity of air as it transfers around the engine between hot and cold sides.   It is very simple, there are no valves and no electrics.   Compressing air causes it's temperature to rise – likewise when air is expanding, its temperature drops. It works as a cycle, simple air going round and round... Non-electric technology in harmony with nature.

'Hot Air' Engines were a contemporary to the Steam Engine, but are actually thermally very efficient – though bulky.   Because they have no electrics they will still work when modern technologies don't!

Heat pumps must be considered as one component within the whole heat extraction – heat distribution, and insulation system for efficient working. This heat pump is mainly intended for ground or marine source heat input as it is more effective in winter.   It is safe and simple.   Buildings that have both high thermal capacity and good insulation will tend to even out the heat variations due to vagaries in wind speed.

The home built experimental models were extremely useful in aiding the design development, but the project has now outgrown that stage. Collaboration with full size prototypes is now invited. Contact

Due to it necessary bulk and wind requirements, it is intended for rural, upland and marine application, being economic in the present but continuing to work without fuel or electricity.   It is therefore a transition tool for continued survival, usable both now and post infrastructure collapse.

A specific rural solution to what will be a general problem!

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SURVIVAL OF YOUNG PEOPLE

Our society protects the young on the surface, but what is their future? ...There is a high probability that our technological society will destroy itself before the natural events of Ragnarok even begin to happen. A technology bubble waiting to burst.   Our young people feel the lies, deceptions, greed and inequalities of society, though there is so much pressure to comply. This is called cognitive dissonance. There is mental distress when fortitude would be needed.   Rogue A.I. technologies – the only way to stop them will be to destroy our own internet!   There is also the issue of survival if E.M.P. weapons are used.

Our society is therefore hopelessly unprepared to face "Ragnarok". The Young of today Are the future!   It is therefore all about helping the survival and skills transfer to as many young people as possible through these events.   Luck will play a big part... not being in the wrong place at the wrong time. ...But so will being a practical person and thinking independently!

This project is about developing a transition tool to help shelter from climatic stress, hot or cold, that will continue working after a 'Carrington Event' or malicious action, while still being economic in the present... A useful piece of kit!