ABOUT RAGNAROK ENGINEERING

It has been a long journey to get here and not in a straight line... Different factors had to come together — The reasons behind the project, including solar-geological cataclysm issues, and Stirling Engines for application in this context. Each has its own deep story.   With the Stirling engine side, there is also the style of that engineering – innovative, yet rugged dependability.

Of the different roots, the more disturbing factors have been the reasons behind the project, and what it has to achieve and cope with as a transition tool.   The home built experimental models have been extremely useful in aiding the development of the design, but the project has now outgrown this stage. Sponsorship for full size prototypes is now needed.

Our position is that society has made itself vulnerable to collapse as much is wrong, and we cannot prevent 'Climate Change' because it is solar driven, but we can independently try to survive all this.

Sooner or later we are facing a Carrington Event++   The known facts are that Stirling Cycle machines can still work in strong electro-magnetic fields and they can function as heat pumps, many are in cryogenics. Also they could be Wind powered not requiring any electrical connection.   Rather the purpose of building experimental models is to take such an idea for a low cost machine in a specific rural application, try out variations in the details manufactured in a home workshop, and get a viable design together for a full size prototype.   Therefore experimental models are just a cost effective bridge to get the project viable... Its modest beginnings do not reflect the magnitude of its importance, only the of obliviousness of our mesmerized technological society to real world inevitably.

Design Engineer  J. M. Boardman

   "Different is – Different does"